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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What disease does the main character have?

2. When is the affliction discovered and treated? When is it rediscovered?

3. How do the main character's symptoms progress?

4. What is the main character's affliction?

5. What happens to him after he commits murder?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent are patients like those described in this book 'normal?' Is it that they can't function in society? Or can they, with a little help? How would you try to integrate these patients into society? Or would you refuse to try? Please pick two patients you think could be easily integrated into society and one patient that presents difficulties. Explain how you would integrate the first two patients and why the third would present difficulties.

Essay Topic 2

What is retrograde amnesia? What causes it? To what extent can it be cured? How does it often disappear and why?

Essay Topic 3

A great deal of neurological research has been done on how aphasia affects the language centers of the brain. Complete a five page research paper where you summarize this research.

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