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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Sacks have strong legs?
(a) He ran marathons.
(b) He swam regularly.
(c) He had worked out at the gym for many years.
(d) He was a veteran hiker.

3. According to the plane captain, what is the first lesson a patient must learn?
(a) Patience.
(b) Hopefulness.
(c) Peace.
(d) Happiness.

4. What was Luria's response to Sacks's story?
(a) Such effects are widely studied in the medical field.
(b) Such effects often happen but the stories are not told.
(c) Such effects rarely ever occur.
(d) Fascinating but not completely useful to modern doctors.

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

6. What instrument did Sacks have for listening to music?
(a) A record player.
(b) A clarinet.
(c) A small radio.
(d) An MP3 player.

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

8. What would happen if Sacks were not found by nightfall?
(a) He would die of blood loss.
(b) The bull would trample him to death.
(c) He would freeze to death.
(d) He would most likely go crazy.

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

10. What was the first exercise that Sacks tried to do with the physiotherapist?
(a) Lift his leg.
(b) Tense up his quadriceps.
(c) Bend his knee.
(d) Swing his leg to the left.

11. According to Sacks, why does he not end his story after his rescue?
(a) The focus of the book is the recovery, not the accident.
(b) The book was not long enough to stop.
(c) He had so many ideas left to convey.
(d) The accident is closely connected to the story of recovery.

12. When the father and his son rescued Sacks, what had they been doing just a moment before?
(a) Listening to the mass wafting up from the church.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Hunting reindeer.
(d) Searching for him.

13. What question did Sacks want to ask the surgeon before surgery?
(a) Whether he could have a spinal anesthesia.
(b) Whether he could have a general anesthesia.
(c) Whether he could have someone photograph the surgery.
(d) Whether he could drink a little water first.

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

15. When Sacks began to write to Luria, where did Luria live?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Oslo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who inspired and encouraged Sacks to finish his book?

3. Who wrote the book which was the model for Sacks's own book?

4. When did Sacks begin writing to Luria?

5. Why did the staff nurse laugh at Sacks when he arrived in his room?

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