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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As the Sister took the stitches out of Sacks's leg, what did he think?
(a) That she was fiddling around.
(b) That she was being gentle but the procedure still hurt.
(c) That she was not being gentle.
(d) That he could not wait to go hiking again.

2. Why is the phrase "uneventful recovery" misleading?
(a) Recovery is the greatest event of the patient's life.
(b) Recovery has no relationship to events.
(c) The phrase implies a peaceful recovery, which is never possible.
(d) Recovery is actually a series of events.

3. After a temporary cast was put on the leg, what dream did Sacks have?
(a) The leg was made of cloud vapor.
(b) The leg was covered with a layer of steel.
(c) The leg was being squeezed in a vice.
(d) The leg was made of bricks and mortar.

4. What town's hospital was Sacks taken to first?
(a) Odda's.
(b) Oslo's.
(c) Bergen's.
(d) London's.

5. What vital change in the world happened once Sacks moved out of his first hospital room?
(a) He became part of a community again.
(b) He felt distant from the other patients though he had expected to feel closer.
(c) He was intimidated by the vastness of the world.
(d) He reinforced his individuality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days did Sacks spend in his small hospital room?

2. What book of the Bible does Sacks quote at the beginning of Chapter Three?

3. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?

4. How does Sack describe his thoughts during the first moments of standing again?

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

(see the answer key)

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