<p> Name ______</p><p>AWAKENINGS VIEWING QUESTIONS</p><p>1. Describe the symptoms of the character Leonard in childhood as well as adulthood.</p><p>2. What is your initial impression of Dr. Sayer? Do you think he has good intentions toward the people in the hospital? Explain?</p><p>3. What do you think it would be like to be trapped in your body for many years like the people in the movie?</p><p>4. What various stimuli make the patients react? (i.e., what reaches them?)</p><p>5. Did Dr. Sayer give Mrs. Lowe (Leonard’s mother) adequate information for her to be able to make a good judgment of whether or not the drug trial was in Leonard's best interests? Explain. 6. Do you think Dr. Sayer was justified in experimenting with drugs on his patients before research was conducted to find out how the drugs would affect the people? Explain.</p><p>7. What are the various psychological reactions that the patients have to their “awakenings”?</p><p>8. How would you want to be treated if you were in Leonard's position?</p><p>Would you want someone to decide on your behalf to conduct experiments on you? If so, under what restrictions: for example, would it be necessary that you yourself might benefit from the experimental treatment?</p><p>If you knew that the treatment was only temporary, would you want to be 'awakened' at all?</p><p>9. What ethical questions are raised in this movie regarding treatment? What is your opinion? </p>