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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is his problem with body?
(a) He believes that his hands are someone else's.
(b) He believes that his face is someone else's.
(c) He believes that his arm is someone else's.
(d) He believes that his leg is someone else's.

2. The main character in this chapter has which affliction?
(a) Aphasia
(b) Prosopagnosia
(c) Hemiplegia
(d) Agnosia

3. Sacks thinks of his patients as:
(a) Villains
(b) Heroes
(c) Tragedies
(d) Friends

4. How does the 'what science leaves out' theme play out in this chapter?
(a) Science ignores the ethical issues at stake.
(b) Science leaves out an account of higher cognitive faculties.
(c) Science leaves out the personal experience of the patient.
(d) Science pays no attention to the state of the soul in these matters.

5. What is the main character's affliction?
(a) Congential Blindness and Cerebral Palsy
(b) Neither Congenital Blindness nor Cerebral Palsy
(c) Only Congenital Blindness
(d) Only Cerebral Palsy

6. What are the agents that spread the main character's disorder?
(a) Bacteria
(b) Antibodies
(c) Spirochetes
(d) Virii

7. How many children does the main character have?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) One

8. Dr. P cannot recognize what?
(a) Emotions
(b) Sounds
(c) Pictures
(d) Faces

9. To what extent is Jimmie G's intelligence impaired?
(a) Moderately
(b) Not at all
(c) Slightly
(d) Severly

10. The main character has a dream that foreshadows her condition? What is the dream about?
(a) Losing the ability to see or hear
(b) Losing the ability to taste or smell
(c) Losing the ability to stand or feel objects
(d) Losing the ability to remember recent and distant events

11. If Sacks called his chapters 'studies' what would that mean about his attitude?
(a) He despises his patients.
(b) He is detached from his patients.
(c) He likes his patients.
(d) He is professional.

12. The main character does not like his treatment. How does he/she cope?
(a) Takes medicine on the weekened but not during the week
(b) Takes medicine during the week but not on the weekends
(c) Changes medicines
(d) Learns to live without medicine

13. At what stage of Sacks' career does he encounter the main character of Chapter Four?
(a) As a resident
(b) As a young doctor
(c) As a young medical student
(d) As a doctor in the middle of his career practice

14. The main character's disorder involves a breakdown of cooperation between which three body systems?
(a) Hearing, proprioception, and vision
(b) Hearing, balance organs, and vision
(c) Hearing, balance organs, and proprioception
(d) Vision, balance organs, and proprioception

15. How does the patient respond to Sacks?
(a) He recognizes that Sacks is right.
(b) He argues with Sacks but eventually agrees with him.
(c) He believes Sacks hesitantly.
(d) He does not believe Sacks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks sees his patients as:

2. Dr. P is a teacher of what?

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

4. What is the technical term of Jimmie G.'s disorder?

5. How old is the character in this chapter?

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