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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. Why did Sacks dedicate his book to Luria?
2. After realizing that he was the victim of the fall, what did Sacks do?
3. When was Studies in Neurology published?
4. What did Sacks feel as he was being admitted to the hospital?
5. What word does Sacks use most to describe the bull?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Sacks treat the warning sign about the bull? What does this reveal about his attitude?
2. When Sacks was in the hospital, why did he hesitate to write about his experience? What mindset change enabled him to write?
3. What is anosognosis? What problem does this state present to medical researchers?
4. Chapter Two begins with the idea that Sacks's story was over. How might the readership have been different if he had actually ended the story here?
5. How does Sacks describe his first few steps? How might this description be applied to another time in life, one which has never been described?
6. What did Sacks think when he saw his left leg for the first time in two weeks? How did his own thoughts tie into the doctor's summary of the recovery?
7. How much time does Dr. Swan spend with Sacks prior to the operation? How does this foretell his interactions with Sacks following the operation?
8. How does Sacks describe the bull? How does this description show his change of heart from the time he read the warning sign?
9. What paradoxical command did Sacks find while he was in Limbo? How do you think this contrasted with his previous way of living?
10. Patients in the hospital are treated with fear and sometimes horror by the healthy people who visit them. Using Sacks's thoughts, what might be the reason for this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
As Sacks was being pressured to begin walking, what miracle occurred? How was this miracle the same thing he had been working toward since his accident?
Essay Topic 2
"We have art, in order that we may not perish from the truth" (Nietzsche, Chapter Three, pg 89). Why did Sacks believe this? How did he incorporate this idea into his recovery?
Essay Topic 3
What role does sight play in Sacks's story? When is his sight best and worst? What affects his sight? How do his eyes serve as symbols of his leg's injury and recovery?
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