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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Price describe the process of getting off methodone?
(a) No effects.
(b) Mild effects that lingered for a long time.
(c) A few nights of mild withdrawal.
(d) Weeks of agony.

2. What was the 'new demon' Price encountered after surgery?
(a) Disorientation from his drugs.
(b) Side effects of a drug.
(c) Withdrawal from a drug.
(d) Phantom pains.

3. How does Price describe his mobility while writing Kate Vaiden?
(a) Limited mobility.
(b) Nearly housebound.
(c) A good deal of freedom of mobility.
(d) Completely housebound.

4. Who is Daniel Voll?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) A Duke grad student.
(d) A physician.

5. What good news did Dr. Shuping give Price?
(a) That he could stop the pain.
(b) That he wasn't dying.
(c) That his prognosis looked for walking again.
(d) That he would return to complete health.

6. What happened to the offer the Andersons made?
(a) They started construction, but then had a falling out.
(b) The plan did not work out.
(c) Someone else came through with a better offer for him.
(d) They paid his bills down to the point where he wasn't terrified all the time.

7. What did Dan convince Price to do?
(a) Write about his old memories.
(b) Visit his family.
(c) Travel more.
(d) Buy a van with hand controls.

8. What was Reynolds Price's response to the trip he took with Daniel Voll?
(a) He was depressed.
(b) He was humbled.
(c) He was inspired.
(d) He was appalled.

9. What was the effect of the new demon in Price's experience?
(a) Blindness.
(b) Panic attacks.
(c) Hallucinations.
(d) Nausea.

10. What did two new MRIs indicate about Price's tumor?
(a) It had not returned.
(b) It had spread.
(c) It was completely gone.
(d) It was starting to grow again.

11. What did Price's friends the Andersons offer to do for him?
(a) Assume legal responsibility for his care.
(b) Help him with his medical bills.
(c) Build a wing on their house for him to stay in.
(d) Find him funding for experimental treatments.

12. What was the result of the surgery Price had in the fall?
(a) The surgeon nicked his spinal cord.
(b) The tumor was removed.
(c) The tumor was left alone.
(d) Complications from the anesthesia.

13. What did Daniel Voll have installed in the house?
(a) Video monitors.
(b) Ramps.
(c) Grab bars.
(d) An elevator.

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

15. What does Price say made physical therapy bearable?
(a) The physical progress.
(b) The process of learning new skills.
(c) The other patients.
(d) The drugs he took for pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Price see in Atlanta?

2. Where does Dan establish himself?

3. What was Price's original opinion of biofeedback?

4. What did Price learn to do in biofeedback?

5. What was Dan's role in maintaining Price's balance of mind?

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