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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sacks describe the six-hour ambulance ride to the next hospital?
(a) Like a dream.
(b) Like death.
(c) Like resurrection.
(d) Like the embodiment of hope.

2. How long had Sacks been traveling when he came to the swollen stream?
(a) He did not know.
(b) Half an hour.
(c) Two hours.
(d) Four hours.

3. According to Sacks, what was "the only proper posture of the soul at this time" (Chapter Three, pg 113)?
(a) Passivity and patience.
(b) Patience.
(c) Action and prayer.
(d) Action.

4. To what does Einstein compare creating a new theory?
(a) Rediscovering the world.
(b) Tearing down a house to build a skyscraper.
(c) Building a skyscraper.
(d) Climbing a mountain.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main injury that Sacks was able to identify?

2. When Sacks first entered into the field of neurology, what excited him most?

3. What two sounds was Sacks caught between?

4. When moving out of his tiny hospital room, why did Sacks see the world as two-dimensional?

5. During his recovery, what did Sacks decide was the most important thing of all?

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