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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Dr. Friedman say was causing Price's pains?
(a) Repressed memories.
(b) Damaged nerve cells.
(c) His immune system attacking his healthy tissue.
(d) Phantom pain.

2. What was Price able to do after Christmas 1985?
(a) Remember short-term and long-term memories.
(b) Drive.
(c) Return to teaching.
(d) Walk.

3. What did Reynolds Price do upon returning from his trip with Daniel Voll?
(a) Submit a proposal for a new book.
(b) Retreat into bed.
(c) Rewrite the play.
(d) Write another play.

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

5. Who was Lawrence Wall?
(a) Reynolds Price's lover.
(b) Reynolds Price's physical therapist.
(c) Reynolds Price's surgeon.
(d) Daniel Voll's replacement.

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

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

8. What did Price become aware of after biofeedback?
(a) Repressed memories.
(b) Nature.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Scents and colors.

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

10. What does Price say was the critical reaction to Kate Vaiden?
(a) Mixed reviews and critical disinterest.
(b) Positive reviews.
(c) Harsh reviews.
(d) The book was ignored.

11. 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) They paid his bills down to the point where he wasn't terrified all the time.
(d) Someone else came through with a better offer for him.

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

13. What was Dr. Shuping's prognosis?
(a) That he might eventually get some relief from pain.
(b) That Price's outlook for walking was not good.
(c) That he would likely be paralyzed permanently.
(d) That surgery might help him.

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

15. What does Price say his health was doing while he was writing the commissioned work?
(a) Improving.
(b) Remaining steady.
(c) Oscillating wildly.
(d) Declining.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Price say his outlook was like by April 1985?

2. What changed that allowed Price to return to writing?

3. What was different about Daniel Voll's visit, when he returned to see Price?

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

5. What did Price's friends the Andersons offer to do for him?

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