The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Quizzes

The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Quiz 1

By Nathaniel A. Koch · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed August 08, 2018

1 Which patient becomes caught in a confabulatory delirium?

Madeleine J.

Mrs. B

Mr. Thompson

Jimmie G.
2 What condition does the grey-haired woman in “The Possessed” have, according to Dr. Sacks’ informal diagnosis?

super-Tourette’s

Tourette’s

Korsakoff’s

Reminiscence
3 What is José’s splinter skill?

Photographic memory

Painting

Mental calculation

Drawing
4 What, according to Dr. Sacks, is neurology’s favorite word?

“Deficit”

“The Abstract”

“The Concrete”

“Losses”
5 What is the primary cause of Korsakoff disease?

Congenital defects

Epilepsy

Derepression of trauma

Chronic alcoholism
6 What symptom is associated with Tourette’s disease?

Tonal agnosia

Ticcing

Face-blindness

Retrograde amnesia
7 Why does the aphasia ward laugh at a televised speech from the President?

They don’t understand his words or his facial expressions

They only understand his facial expressions

They are experiencing confabulatory delirium

They only understand his words
8 What is Stephen D.’s reaction to having an enhanced sense of smell?

He is disgusted by it

He becomes more outgoing

He is afraid it will never go away

He begins thinking less about abstract concepts
9 What is Rebecca’s special talent?

Drawing

Innate sense of symbol and metaphor

Enhanced vision

Innate sense of prime numbers
10 What is Ray’s final solution to addressing his Tourette’s?

He will stop taking medication and return to being “Witty Ticcy Ray.”

He will only take medication on weekends

He will take L-DOPA to balance out his medication

He will only take medication on weekdays
11 Why does Jimmie G. think that the year is 1945?

He has autism

He has Korsakoff’s

He is experiencing reminiscence

He has Tourette’s
12 What was neurology’s primary focus after WWII?

Studying patients with left-hemisphere deficits

Studying patients with right-hemisphere deficits

Studying patients with right-hemisphere excesses

Studying patients with left-hemisphere excesses
13 Who is one of the forefathers of modern neurology?

Sigmund Freud

William Thompson

William Osler

A.R. Luria
14 What about Mrs. B is perturbing to Dr. Sacks?

She has a partial cleft palate

She is a former chemist

She no longer cares about reality

She committed murder while in an epileptic seizure
15 What makes Emily D. different than the other patients watching the President’s speech?

She doesn’t care for politics

She has tonal agnosia

She is a Republican

She is not a patient
16 Which condition is said to have caused the visions of Hildegarde?

Proprioception

Reminiscence

Tourette’s

Migraines
17 What is Mr. MacGregor’s reaction to having a proprioceptive disorder?

He begins using a wheelchair

He rigs a spirit level to the front of his glasses

He looks at each limb in order to move it

He becomes totally immobile
18 What is the effect of L-DOPA on Rose R.?

She learns how to use her hands

It causes reminiscence

It gives her retrograde amnesia

It slows her reflexes
19 Why are phantom limbs important?

Phantom limbs are incredibly rare

They allow amputees to use prosthetics

They are not important; they are only a nuisance

They allow amputees to experience reminiscence
20 What is Martin A.’s special ability?

He can recall the events of any day in his childhood

He is an incredible singer

He has a uniquely poetic form of speech

He has memorized 2,000 different operas
21 How does Dr. P. distinguish between his students?

By their musical skill

By their unique facial features

By the sounds of their voices

By the clothes they wear
22 What type of numbers do John and Michael seemingly have an innate sense of?

Factors

Logarithms

Primes

Square roots
23 What causes Donald to remember details about the crime he committed?

Hypnosis

He never forgets the crime

Sodium amytal

Temporal lobe seizures
24 Why does Natasha K. begin feeling “frisky” after her 88th birthday?

She begins taking Haldol

She has neurosyphilis

She begins taking L-DOPA

She develops amnesia
25 Why is Miguel O. sad about being put on medication?

His reflexes slow down

He loses his energy and creativity

He loses interest in drumming and ping-pong

He loses interest in painting

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