The Seventh Sense (Reading)

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The Seventh Sense

1) Which of the following is NOT a "special sense"?

A) Smell
B) Touch
C) Taste
D) Hearing


2) Why does the author say, "what happens when the body loses knowledge of itself is a far stranger occurrence?

A) He his drawing conclusions about the senses.
B) He believes that it is rare to see this symptom in people.
C) He is introducing the main topic of the passage.
D) He is emphasizing the importance of interoceptive senses.


3) The word "this" in paragraph 3, line 4, refers to:

A) organic sense
B) internal condition
C) body
D) interoceptive sense


4) Which of the following words is closest in meaning to "subjected" (paragraph 4, line 10)?

A) forced
B) educated
C) asked
D) experimented


5) Which of the following words is closest in meaning to "premonitory" (paragraph 5, line 4)?

A) elusive
B) foreshadowing
C) concluding
D) main


6) Which of the following is NOT a stage in the development of Sacks' Syndrome?

A) Development of increasingly poor coordination
B) Proprioceptive failure in specific limbs of the sufferer.
C) Dreams in which the sufferer has no control of their body.
D) A complete loss of bodily awareness.


7) What can be inferred about a person with Proprioception Deficit Disorder?

A) They are unable to move various parts of their body.
B) It is challenging for them to do multiple physical tasks at once.
C) They cannot go to work because it is difficult to carry their briefcase.
D) It is difficult to manage, but they can still drive to work.


8) Which of the following sentences best paraphrases, "Thus, the movement does not look at all natural; opening a door becomes a laborious process of extend hand, tighten each finger, rotate knob, extend arm, raise foot, lower foot, and so on."?

A) As the result of the need for suffers of PDD to meticulously analyze all of their movements, none of their physical actions look normal.

B) Because of the complexity of the actions involved in opening doors, casual movements around the house become impossible to accomplish.

C) The detailed process we go through in opening a door is something most PDD sufferers take for granted.

D) The complex analysis that most people develop for actions such as opening a door is lacking in sufferers of Sacks' Syndrome so their movements appear strange.


9) Which of the following is a possible cause of permanent PDD?

A) It may be encoded in a persons genes.
B) Increased knowledge about the disease.
C) Overdoses of certain vitamins may cause it.
D) It may be communicable.