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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 reinforced his individuality.
(c) He felt distant from the other patients though he had expected to feel closer.
(d) He was intimidated by the vastness of the world.

2. Sacks had written to Luria explaining his accident and the subsequent alienation he felt. What was Luria's response?
(a) Sacks' experience was unique.
(b) Sacks' experience was odd but worth writing about.
(c) Luria did not understand Sacks' experience.
(d) Sacks was opening a new medical field.

3. What is the most important reason for the young painter's misery?
(a) He could not hide his worsening illness.
(b) He could not hide his wish for death.
(c) He knew he was dying and could not accept it.
(d) He was impatient for the moment of death.

4. How did Sacks's knee return to its full functionality?
(a) He was challenged to swim.
(b) He stopped thinking about its physical movements.
(c) He went through one week of therapy.
(d) He walked one mile a day.

5. Following his second fall, how long did Sacks wait before surgery was performed
(a) Eight hours.
(b) Two hours.
(c) Half an hour.
(d) Three hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Einstein compare creating a new theory?

2. How had Sacks tried to revive his left leg?

3. Who, in Sacks's family, had worked closely with Head?

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

5. As the Sister took the stitches out of Sacks's leg, what did he think?

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