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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what poor instrument did Sacks compare his injured leg?
(a) The cracked cello in his living room.
(b) The broken saxophone he had kept since childhood.
(c) The smashed violin he had as a child.
(d) The dented clarinet he had as a child.

2. How has Sacks written the book A Leg to Stand On?
(a) As a novel or short story.
(b) As an autobiography.
(c) As an expose.
(d) As a prose poem.

3. Sacks climbed a particular stretch of ground in just over an hour. How long did it take him to descend this same stretch?
(a) Nearly seven hours.
(b) Three hours.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Half an hour.

4. Where did Sacks's accident occur?
(a) On a mountain in Norway.
(b) In the hills of Germany.
(c) In the Swiss Alps.
(d) On a mountain in Finland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Sacks meet the bull?

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

3. What book does Sacks model his own book after?

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

5. Shortly after the sun set, what extraordinary auditory experience did Sacks have?

(see the answer key)

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