TEXT QUESTIONS Date The Most Forgetful Man in the World Joshua Foer responses. DIRECTIONS: Respond to these questions. Cite textual evidence to support your
(a) Recall What two types of amnesia does EP suffer from?
(b) Explain What affect does each type of amnesia have on him?
(a) Compare and Contrast How are EP’s case and Clive Wearing’s case similar? How are they different?
(b) Assess Which man do you think is happier? Explain.
Interpret Do the results of Michel Siffre’s experiment in 1962 seem to support Ed Cooke’s hypothesis, on the one hand, or the fictional Dunbar’s hypothesis, on the other? Explain.
Evaluate In the final paragraph, Foer describes a philosophical conundrum. Do you think it would be wrong to put patients through pain during a surgery if they were unable to remember the pain afterward? Why?
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