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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Price resolve to do, starting a few days after surgery?
(a) Document everything that happened.
(b) Make a will.
(c) Let the cancer take its course.
(d) Fight the cancer with everything he had.

2. What did Price's friend from Florida make sure Price had?
(a) Nutritious food.
(b) Emotional support from friends.
(c) Rest and quiet.
(d) Warm clothes.

3. Where did Price work with Diana Betz?
(a) At his home.
(b) At the hospital.
(c) At her office.
(d) At a clinic.

4. What does Price say he began to do more often?
(a) Fall.
(b) Feel strength returning.
(c) Walk long distances.
(d) Cook.

5. What was Marcia Bennett's husband doing on his travels?
(a) Research.
(b) Visiting friends.
(c) Missionary work.
(d) Lecturing.

6. What does Price begin to do after contact with Dr. Simonton?
(a) Travel to India.
(b) Visualize his antibodies attacking cancer cells.
(c) Stop radiation therapy.
(d) Eat differently.

7. What did Reynolds Price begin to feel after the anesthesia wore off?
(a) Numbness.
(b) Dizziness.
(c) Excruciating pain.
(d) Nausea.

8. What could Reynolds Price do by himself?
(a) Simple shopping.
(b) Get around.
(c) Eat.
(d) Shower and shave.

9. What had the surgeon discovered?
(a) A malignant tumor.
(b) An excessive auto-immune reaction.
(c) A benign cyst.
(d) A shattered bone.

10. What hobby did Price take up?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Writing poetry.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sculpture.

11. What was the surgeon's recommendation following surgery?
(a) Another surgery.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Palliative care.
(d) Chemotherapy.

12. Which poet did Price NOT hear from?
(a) John Updike.
(b) Stephen Spender.
(c) Phillip Roth.
(d) Raymond Carver.

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

14. What is Reynolds Price's condition at the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Being diagnosed with cancer.
(b) Healthy and successful.
(c) Going into remission.
(d) Recovering from a surgery.

15. How did Price's social circle change as he continued with radiation therapy?
(a) People avoided him as his moods deteriorated.
(b) His friends abandoned him as his condition worsened.
(c) Only his close family continued to visit.
(d) People from church flocked to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would they share?

2. What did the radiation oncologist tell Reynolds Price after his radiation therapy was done?

3. Where does Price say he experienced constant pain?

4. How does Price spend his time on returning home?

5. What was Price's condition when he returned home?

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