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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Eighteen, The Dog Beneath the Skin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what extent does the main character recognize his disorder?
(a) All the time
(b) Not at all
(c) Only when he is willing to face the truth
(d) Only at certain times

2. What are the effects of the main character's affliction?
(a) Inability to attend to his right side.
(b) Inability to identify himself
(c) Inability to comprehend language
(d) Inability to identify others

3. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) Elevated Proprioception
(b) Elevated Sex Drive
(c) Elevated Sense of Smell
(d) Elevated Hearing

4. Why would the disorder described in the chapter be a bad thing?
(a) The brain does process information properly when patients feel their phantom limbs.
(b) Patients do not recover from losing a limb.
(c) Patients get angry when they rediscover they do not have limbs.
(d) Patients are disturbed by their false sensations.

5. How many cases are covered in this chapter?
(a) Five
(b) Four
(c) Two
(d) Three

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the main character of this chapter?

2. How many characters does the main character identify himself as in front of Dr. Sacks?

3. Things aren't real to the main character until he has?

4. What is a visual phantom?

5. What does the main character lose when he loses his affliction?

(see the answer key)

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