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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When had Price enjoyed this hobby previously?
(a) During his teaching years.
(b) Young adulthood.
(c) Right before he got cancer.
(d) Childhood.

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

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

4. What was Price able to move when he emerged from surgery?
(a) His fingers.
(b) His legs.
(c) His ankles.
(d) His toes.

5. What activity does Price say he tried out, only to find that it wasn't for him?
(a) Basketball.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Hockey.
(d) Jogging.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose lives does Price say he based his commissioned work on?

2. What is Reynolds Price's condition at the beginning of the memoir?

3. What does Price say his health was doing while he was writing the commissioned work?

4. What did Daniel Voll have installed in the house?

5. What did Price's friend from Florida make sure Price had?

(see the answer key)

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