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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, 4 and 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Since his accident, what has Sacks been aware of?
(a) The wonder and horror which lie just behind life.
(b) The shallowness of human experience.
(c) The shallowness of everyday life.
(d) The wonder and horror which are an everyday part of life.

2. What was the primary reason that Sacks and his friends celebrated the evening after his surgery?
(a) Sacks' recovery was expected to take two short months.
(b) They were drunk and did not care what they celebrated.
(c) They were alive and together.
(d) Sacks had not died on the operating table.

3. What was the occasion for this book?
(a) An accident with expected effects.
(b) The study of an unusual patient.
(c) Reading a book about an unusual patient.
(d) An accident with peculiar effects.

4. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?
(a) Conrad.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Luria.

5. Where did Sacks finish writing his book?
(a) On a mountain in Costa Rica.
(b) In a village in Norway.
(c) On a mountain in Nicaragua.
(d) In a meadow in New Yor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Sacks's accident occur?

2. What time did Sacks hope to reach the mountain's summit?

3. 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)?

4. Why did Sacks write to A. R. Luria?

5. What did Sacks think when he woke from the surgery?

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