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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Fourteen through Sixteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can be impossible when the pain of a migraine is intense, according to this book?
(a) Reading.
(b) Activity.
(c) Eating.
(d) Speaking.

2. Sacks does point out in this section that many people believe that migraines are _______________ in nature.
(a) Spontaneous.
(b) Forward.
(c) Aggressive.
(d) Debilitating.

3. Some people, when having a migraine, might feel a distorted sense of familiarity or _____________.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Activity.
(c) Strangeness.
(d) Movement.

4. Sacks wants to point out that there are few _________ that have any value in helping with a migraine case.
(a) Studies.
(b) Movements.
(c) Generalizations.
(d) Activities.

5. There might also be a connection, according to Sacks, between migraines and _________, as some will wake up with headaches.
(a) Sleeping in bed alone.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Pets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks is just not sure if ____________ or genetics are more of a cause for the migraines which seem to take place in families.

2. What might be a secondary factor of a migraine headache, causing even more pain and more tension?

3. Sacks does think there may be a link between having ________ and cyclical vomiting as a child and migraines.

4. Sacks says that the only way to test the family connection theory of migraines is to see if a child with migraines in his family develops migraines when living with a ____________.

5. One man experienced a ________ sensation in his left foot during the course of a migraine.

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