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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Price's original opinion of biofeedback?
(a) Disinterest.
(b) Indifference.
(c) Optimism.
(d) High hopes.

2. What does Price say Daniel Voll would do 'happily' for him and his visitors?
(a) Read and edit works.
(b) Leave them in peace.
(c) Cook.
(d) Shopping and errands.

3. What did MRIs indicate about Price's tumor, in 1987?
(a) No growth.
(b) Decay of the vertebrae around it.
(c) Reduction in size.
(d) Aggressive growth.

4. Who did Price see in Atlanta?
(a) Bob Dylan.
(b) Miles Davis.
(c) James Taylor.
(d) Charles Mingus.

5. What does Price say he was taking for pain?
(a) Oxycontin.
(b) Morphine.
(c) Tylenol.
(d) Ibuprofen.

6. Who was Lawrence Wall?
(a) Reynolds Price's lover.
(b) Reynolds Price's surgeon.
(c) Reynolds Price's physical therapist.
(d) Daniel Voll's replacement.

7. For how long does Price say he was addicted to his pain medication?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two months.
(d) Two years.

8. What was the 'new demon' Price encountered after surgery?
(a) Phantom pains.
(b) Withdrawal from a drug.
(c) Disorientation from his drugs.
(d) Side effects of a drug.

9. What damage did the doctors find when they examined Price?
(a) He had been damaged in surgery.
(b) He had broken his bones in a fall years ago.
(c) His blood was getting too thin.
(d) He had been losing muscle mass for years.

10. Who commissioned Price's work?
(a) A college in Arkansas.
(b) A patron in Chicago.
(c) A theatre company in New York.
(d) A film company in California.

11. Where does Daniel Voll live with Reynolds Price?
(a) In Durham, NC.
(b) New York.
(c) Raleigh, NC.
(d) Washington D.C.

12. What was the subject Price wrote about for his commission?
(a) A woman realizing she has been deceived by her lover.
(b) A love affair.
(c) A gay man coming out.
(d) A dying professor.

13. What had Price learned about pain, in biofeedback?
(a) To shut off his emotional reaction to his pain.
(b) To embrace the pain.
(c) To relax each muscle individually.
(d) Not to focus on his pain.

14. Whose lives does Price say he based his commissioned work on?
(a) His own.
(b) His parents.
(c) His children.
(d) His students'.

15. What did doctors do during Price's surgery at the end of the semester?
(a) Fix his vertebrae.
(b) Remove the tumor from his spine.
(c) Remove and drain cysts.
(d) Fuse his vertebrae.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Price say his friends thought about his condition?

2. What kinds of subjects does Price say he steered his students toward?

3. What did Dan convince Price to do?

4. What strength does Price say he gained as a result of physical therapy?

5. What was Dan's role in maintaining Price's balance of mind?

(see the answer keys)

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