View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Reynolds Price's dying friend tell him?
(a) That he was definitely dying.
(b) What dying is like.
(c) That he was undergoing a transformation that may or may not involve dying.
(d) That he would not die.

3. What does Price say a strong neighbor had to do for him?
(a) Hold him through a seizure.
(b) Give him a bath.
(c) Carry him to bed.
(d) Call the ambulance.

4. When does "A Whole New Life begin"?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1961.

5. What work was Price waiting to resume while he was in radiation therapy?
(a) Writing a novel.
(b) Writing a memoir.
(c) Writing a book of essays.
(d) Reviewing books.

6. What hobby did Price take up?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Painting.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Writing poetry.

7. Where is Reynolds Price living at the beginning of "A Whole New Life"?
(a) By the park.
(b) By a mountain.
(c) By a pond.
(d) In the city.

8. Where was Marcia Bennett's husband when she was taking care of Price?
(a) Asia.
(b) Africa.
(c) Europe.
(d) Australia.

9. What capability does Price say he began to lose?
(a) Lifting his feet.
(b) Reading.
(c) Remembering his childhood.
(d) Remembering recent events.

10. What had the surgeon discovered?
(a) An excessive auto-immune reaction.
(b) A benign cyst.
(c) A shattered bone.
(d) A malignant tumor.

11. How many representations does Price say he made of the thing Marcia Bennett urged him to portray?
(a) Dozens.
(b) Scores.
(c) Several.
(d) A few.

12. What is Reynolds Price's condition at the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Healthy and successful.
(b) Going into remission.
(c) Recovering from a surgery.
(d) Being diagnosed with cancer.

13. What was the prognosis after the first round of tests?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Treatment with radiation.
(c) Treatment with drugs.
(d) No action.

14. How athletic was Reynolds Price as a child?
(a) Not at all athletic.
(b) Enthusiastically athletic.
(c) Somewhat athletic.
(d) Extremely athletic.

15. How many days a week was Price getting radiation?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Diana Betz?

2. Where does Price say he experienced constant pain?

3. What did Reynolds Price begin to feel after the anesthesia wore off?

4. What did Price hear from his oncologist?

5. How long was Reynolds Price in surgery?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 406 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample