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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Price dream vividly about?

2. What muscles could Reynolds Price no longer control?

3. Where is Reynolds Price living at the beginning of "A Whole New Life"?

4. What did the test show was swollen?

5. What did Reynolds Price ask Marcia Bennett?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Price say was most difficult about the early weeks of radiation therapy?

2. Describe Price's physical deterioration after radiation therapy.

3. What does Price say he had to do, before he asked Marcia Bennett about staying with her?

4. How does Price say his relationship with Jesus changed throughout the course of his cancer treatment?

5. What resources did Price call on for help with his condition?

6. How athletic was Price?

7. What does Price say was the good news in his prognosis?

8. What did Price draw on Marcia Bennett's urging?

9. What was the first prognosis for Price's condition?

10. What did Price's friend from Florida do for him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate your own reading of "A Whole New Life"--did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Price's family and community as they are described in the book. How close are they? What are their core beliefs? How did Price fit in with them? Well, or badly? Using examples from the text, describe Price's relationship with the people who were close to him when he became sick.

Essay Topic 3

Reynolds Price did not write about being homosexual until years after he wrote "A Whole New Life". Is his homosexual experience apparent in this book? How does the information that Price was gay change your reading of the book? What changes? What stays the same?

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