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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did not occur to Sacks until he injured his leg?
(a) How utterly alone he was.
(b) How far he had climbed up the mountain before falling.
(c) That the bull might be following him.
(d) That he had forgotten to take extra water.

2. What book of the Bible does Sacks quote at the beginning of Chapter Three?
(a) Job.
(b) Proverbs.
(c) Ecclesiastes.
(d) Psalms.

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

4. 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 pioneered a deeper, revolutionary medicine.
(d) Because Luria's book deeply changed his view of neurological illnesses.

5. What analogy does Sacks refer to as he draws the relationship between science and art?
(a) Archimedes' bathtub.
(b) Galileo's earth.
(c) Newton's apple.
(d) Einstein's theory of relativity.

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

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

8. Why was Sacks so happy that he could do fifty chin-ups?
(a) If his torso were strong again, his legs would regain strength more quickly.
(b) He wanted to impress the nurse.
(c) He did not have to get out of bed to exercise.
(d) Only fifteen hours earlier, he had been delirious with fever.

9. How did Sacks splint his leg?
(a) With his walking stick.
(b) With his umbrella.
(c) With a stick he found on the ground.
(d) With his right leg.

10. Who came up with the phrase "quickening art" which described Sacks's use of music to move down the mountain?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Harvey.
(c) Pavlov.
(d) Kant.

11. What did Sacks think when he woke from the surgery?
(a) That he had been asleep for seven hours.
(b) That he had been asleep for nearly a day.
(c) That he had been asleep only a few minutes.
(d) That he was tired and wanted to sleep.

12. Why did the staff nurse laugh at Sacks when he arrived in his room?
(a) Because he had packed fifty books and almost no clothes.
(b) Because he had difficulty walking.
(c) Because he told her a bawdy joke.
(d) Because he was joking about his cast.

13. How long did it take Sacks to reach the final understanding of his various thoughts?
(a) Several years.
(b) Nearly a decade.
(c) Half a year.
(d) One year.

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

15. The night before the operation, Sacks called up his family and friends. What did he tell them could happen if he were to die during the operation?
(a) They could publish anything from his notebooks that they saw fit.
(b) His property should be divided fairly among his family.
(c) His valuable property should be donated to charity.
(d) His property should be auctioned off.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why was Sacks grateful to Dr. Henry Fleck?

3. What did Sacks think about as he moved down the mountain?

4. According to the plane captain, what is the first lesson a patient must learn?

5. While waiting for villagers to arrive and take him to the hospital, how did Sacks feel?

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