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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Reynolds Price find when he finally went to the hospital?
(a) He had become diabetic.
(b) He had injured his nerves.
(c) He had damaged his vertebrae.
(d) His immune system was malfunctioning.

2. What kind of doctor was going to perform surgery on Price?
(a) A radiologist.
(b) An oncologist.
(c) A gastroenterologist.
(d) A neurosurgeon.

3. What was Price given for the next few days after surgery?
(a) Morphine.
(b) Aspirin.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Oxycontin.

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

5. How does Price say he had changed since his illness?
(a) He became more hesitant about following his own desires.
(b) He became more productive.
(c) He says that he learned to doubt people's goodness until it was demonstrated to him.
(d) He learned to trust doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What good news did Dr. Shuping give Price?

2. Where was Price taken after surgery?

3. Where did Price look for consolation?

4. What did Price dream vividly about?

5. To invoke the two meanings by saying that Price became more patient--meaning to become both tolerant and to become a medical patient--is an example of which literary practice?

(see the answer key)

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