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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Preface and Acknowledgements.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the public reaction to Sacks's first article about his leg?
(a) Indignation.
(b) He does not say.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Confusion.

2. In what publication did Sacks's first article about his injury appear?
(a) New York Times.
(b) New York Times Book Review.
(c) London Review of Books.
(d) Atlantic Monthly.

3. How long did Sacks think about his injury before he began writing about it?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Eight years.
(d) Six years.

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

5. Why did Sacks dedicate his book to Luria?
(a) Because Luria was a mentor during medical school.
(b) Because Luria led him out of the darkness.
(c) Because Luria's book deeply changed his view of neurological illnesses.
(d) Because Luria pioneered a deeper, revolutionary medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Sacks plan to write in the future?

2. Who has written about the "occasions of poetry" (pg 9)?

3. As Sacks notes at the beginning of the Acknowledgments, what has he done since his injury?

4. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?

5. When Sacks began to write to Luria, where did Luria live?

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