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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Price characterize the pain he felt by the end of the semester?
(a) Oppressive.
(b) Overpowering.
(c) Humbling.
(d) Beyond description.

2. Where did Reynolds Price and Daniel Voll travel to together?
(a) To New York for experimental treatments.
(b) To California to visit his family.
(c) To Washington D.C. for a literary award ceremony.
(d) To Arkansas for rehearsals.

3. Who was Eric Rector?
(a) Price's living assistant.
(b) Price's doctor.
(c) Price's physical therapist.
(d) Price's teaching assistant.

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

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

6. What does Price say he withdrew from?
(a) Regular hospital care.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Steroids.
(d) Anti-inflammatory drugs.

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

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

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

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

11. What put Price back in the hospital?
(a) Paralysis.
(b) Leaking spinal fluid.
(c) Seizures.
(d) Panic attacks.

12. What does Price say his friends thought about his condition?
(a) They thought he was in retreat from the world.
(b) They thought he was dying of AIDS.
(c) They thought he was on the verge of recovery.
(d) They thought he was harboring his strength for fighting his cancer.

13. What did Price learn to do in biofeedback?
(a) Focus on particular parts of his body.
(b) Breathe into his muscles.
(c) Isolate his muscle movements.
(d) Regulate his pH.

14. Who did Price see in Atlanta?
(a) James Taylor.
(b) Bob Dylan.
(c) Miles Davis.
(d) Charles Mingus.

15. Who commissioned Price's work?
(a) A patron in Chicago.
(b) A film company in California.
(c) A college in Arkansas.
(d) A theatre company in New York.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Price given for pain at physical therapy?

2. What did doctors do during Price's surgery at the end of the semester?

3. What did Price's doctor recommend?

4. How did Reynolds Price injure himself?

5. What damage did the doctors find when they examined Price?

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