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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Six through Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sacks ask migraine patients to do in order to see if they can determine a cause or a condition which might lead to migraines?
(a) A count of their medication usage.
(b) Journal.
(c) Video log.
(d) Go for a run during a headache.

2. Some patients will describe severe __________ as the main symptom of their migraine attack, leading to a different definition of migraine.
(a) Head pain.
(b) Depression.
(c) Abdominal pain.
(d) Family troubles.

3. Sacks is just not sure if ____________ or genetics are more of a cause for the migraines which seem to take place in families.
(a) Hypochondria.
(b) Location.
(c) Luck.
(d) Environment.

4. What do many patients notice about the pain they might feel when they are experiencing a migraine?
(a) It's dull.
(b) It's always on one side.
(c) It doesn't go away.
(d) It's spotty.

5. Where is the physicist du Bois Reymond from, according to the descriptions in this manuscript?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Germany.
(c) Spain.
(d) Austria.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sacks points out there are many ___________ toward many diseases and migraines are no exception to this finding.

2. The symptoms of a migraine, as described in this chapter, include a feeling of _______ as well as the classic symptoms of migraine which are present in this section.

3. Severe _________ may also be the only symptom of a migraine, but it may also exist as an isolated symptom.

4. Sacks discusses the way that ________ can change in people who are in the middle of a migraine attack.

5. Sacks pointed out that a woman's hair turned __________ on one side, the side where she would have her headaches.

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