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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Price spend his time on returning home?
(a) Writing.
(b) Listening to classical music.
(c) Having people over.
(d) Cleaning out his house.

2. What was the title of the work Price created in homage to his tumor?
(a) The Eel.
(b) The Exhaustion.
(c) The Vampire.
(d) The Octopus.

3. Where did Price look for consolation?
(a) Literature.
(b) His friends.
(c) God.
(d) His wife.

4. What did Price feel about the work ahead of him?
(a) Impatient.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Listless.
(d) Optimistic.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Price say was difficult about entering radiation therapy?

2. What was Price's condition as the anesthesia wore off?

3. What is Dr. Simonton's field?

4. Which physical problem has Reynolds Price NOT encountered at the beginning of "A Whole New Life"?

5. Which poet did Price NOT hear from?

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