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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Price resolve to do, starting a few days after surgery?
(a) Document everything that happened.
(b) Fight the cancer with everything he had.
(c) Make a will.
(d) Let the cancer take its course.

2. Who is Jeff Anderson?
(a) Price's friend.
(b) Price's student.
(c) Price's son.
(d) Price's brother.

3. What did the test show was swollen?
(a) Price's brain.
(b) Price's spinal cord.
(c) The sheaths on Price's nerves.
(d) Price's back muscles.

4. What was Price given for the next few days after surgery?
(a) Oxycontin.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Aspirin.
(d) Morphine.

5. Which poet did Price NOT hear from?
(a) Stephen Spender.
(b) John Updike.
(c) Raymond Carver.
(d) Phillip Roth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the prognosis after the first round of tests?

2. What activity does Price say he tried out, only to find that it wasn't for him?

3. How does Price spend his time on returning home?

4. When did Reynolds Price begin to notice changes in his body?

5. What was Price's condition when he returned home?

(see the answer key)

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