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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapter Twenty, The Visions of Hildegard.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the cause of the main character's inability to use one of her body parts?
(a) A Virus
(b) There is no cause; it is an illusion.
(c) Blindness
(d) Cerebral Palsy

2. What was the main character's symptoms?
(a) Visions
(b) Hearing Voices
(c) Tactile Illusions
(d) Reminiscence

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

4. Where does Sacks work at the time of this chapter?
(a) National Institutes of Mental Health
(b) Neuroscience Clinic
(c) Home for the Aged
(d) Therapist's Office

5. What is the disorder discussed in the chapter named by Sacks?
(a) Transcendence
(b) Dissolution
(c) Reminiscences
(d) Disintegration

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the court treat the main character?

2. What hobby does the main character take up later in life?

3. What is a visual phantom?

4. Which of Sacks' questions in the main character unable to answer?

5. What is the main character's most frustrating disability?

(see the answer key)

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