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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long had Sacks been traveling when he came to the swollen stream?
2. As Sacks notes at the beginning of the Acknowledgments, what has he done since his injury?
3. What book of the Bible does Sacks quote at the beginning of Chapter Three?
4. How is the material in the last chapter presented?
5. What language was the sign "BEWARE OF THE BULL!" written in?
Short Essay Questions
1. Sacks discovered, to his horror, that his mental and moral boundaries had shrunk to the limits of the hospital. What does this mean? How did this differ from his mindset before the accident?
2. What distinction does Freud make between types of paralyses? How did the distinction pave the way for a significantly narrow view of neurology?
3. How does Sacks describe his arrival at the convalescent home? What particular words contribute to the picture he draws?
4. What did Sacks do when he finally wanted to escape the convalescent home? How did the woman he met treat him differently than the hospital nurses had?
5. While Sacks was lying in his small hospital room, what happened to his eyes? How was this transformation similar to his leg's injury?
6. How many patients with neurological disorders did Sacks study following his recovery? What does this number say about the people involved?
7. What timeline does Sacks establish for the development of neurology? What is still lacking from this branch of science?
8. How did Sacks move from the world of freedom into the world of the hospital? How might this have contributed to his thought that the operation on the following day would actually be an execution?
9. How does Sacks describe the bull? How does this description show his change of heart from the time he read the warning sign?
10. What was the life voice which Sacks heard on the mountain? How was this voice stronger than his circumstances?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Sacks describe his first ten minutes of walking again (Chapter Five, pgs 123-24)? How did this return him to the moment of humanity? How does this compare to Donne's quote at the beginning of Chapter Two?
Essay Topic 2
What vital support did the surgeon take away when he dismissed Sacks's concerns? When was this support returned? How did Sacks change his career so that he could give this particular support to the patients he treated?
Essay Topic 3
Following the surgery, Sacks's spirit entered into the "dark night of the soul" (Chapter Three, pg 86). Find another example of this in literature and compare the two instances. Analyze personalities, situations, and reactions in order to understand both.
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