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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What instrument did Sacks have for listening to music?
(a) A record player.
(b) A small radio.
(c) An MP3 player.
(d) A clarinet.

2. What did Sacks think when he woke from the surgery?
(a) That he had been asleep for seven hours.
(b) That he was tired and wanted to sleep.
(c) That he had been asleep only a few minutes.
(d) That he had been asleep for nearly a day.

3. On one particular September morning, why did Sacks deeply enjoy lighting his pipe?
(a) He thought he had never before had the leisure to light one.
(b) The pipe fit into the scenery and his mood.
(c) He was a smoker.
(d) He saw the pipe as a sign of returning health.

4. Following the surgery, how did Sacks's cast fit his leg?
(a) The leg was horribly swollen in the cast.
(b) He could put his entire fist between his leg and the cast.
(c) The leg fit nearly perfectly in the cast.
(d) He could put two fingers between his leg and the cas.

5. Why was Sacks so happy that he could do fifty chin-ups?
(a) He wanted to impress the nurse.
(b) Only fifteen hours earlier, he had been delirious with fever.
(c) If his torso were strong again, his legs would regain strength more quickly.
(d) He did not have to get out of bed to exercise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Nietzsche use to describe the feeling that convalescence brings?

2. What vital change in the world happened once Sacks moved out of his first hospital room?

3. When the father and his son rescued Sacks, what had they been doing just a moment before?

4. What does Sacks think of when he remembers the Biblical words, "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time or die; a time . . ." (pg 26)?

5. Why did Sacks have strong legs?

(see the answer key)

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