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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapter Six, Phantoms.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Sacks' questions in the main character unable to answer?
(a) Where his proper leg is
(b) Where his proper arm is
(c) Where his proper face is
(d) Where his proper hands are

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

3. What is a visual phantom?
(a) When a patient has hallucinations of past events.
(b) When a patient's perception is confused and they cannot navigate well.
(c) When a patient has a persistent hallucination of a person or other being accompanying or harassing him/her.
(d) When a patient sees shapes and colors that are not there.

4. Who is the main character of the chapter?
(a) Christina
(b) Mr. P.
(c) Jimmie G.
(d) Madeline J.

5. Who is the neuroscientist Sacks receives advice from in Chapter 1?
(a) Edelman
(b) Petersen
(c) Pinker
(d) Luria

Short Answer Questions

1. What aspect of his patients is Sacks concerned to communicate to his reader?

2. What is the first man worried about?

3. After Dr. Sacks and Mr. P part ways, how much longer does Mr. P teach music?

4. Where does Sacks work at the time of this chapter?

5. Dr. P possesses which personal qualities.

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