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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) Beyond description.
(d) Humbling.

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

3. What did MRIs indicate about Price's tumor, in 1987?
(a) Decay of the vertebrae around it.
(b) Aggressive growth.
(c) Reduction in size.
(d) No growth.

4. What does Price say his outlook was, at the end of chapter 6?
(a) He was determined to kill himself before he lived with his pains again.
(b) He dreaded another round of pain and surgery.
(c) He was afraid of dying.
(d) He knew he could live with whatever came.

5. What does Price say Daniel Voll would do 'happily' for him and his visitors?
(a) Shopping and errands.
(b) Cook.
(c) Read and edit works.
(d) Leave them in peace.

6. What kinds of subjects does Price say he steered his students toward?
(a) Real emotions.
(b) Science fiction.
(c) Intensely literary works.
(d) Highly-stylized works.

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

8. What does Price say his outlook was like by April 1985?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Much improved.
(c) Despairing.
(d) Still uncertain.

9. What was Reynolds Price offered in November?
(a) A commission for a memoir.
(b) A commission to write a play.
(c) A commission for an advertising job.
(d) A commission for a political commentary.

10. What did Patrick Louge teach Price?
(a) Stretching exercises.
(b) Spiritual practices.
(c) Nutrition.
(d) Self-hypnosis.

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

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

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

14. What strength does Price say he gained as a result of physical therapy?
(a) Upper body strength.
(b) Strength of character.
(c) Back muscle strength.
(d) Abdominal muscle strength.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Price learn to do in biofeedback?

3. What does Price say accompanied his pains, now?

4. What did Reynolds Price see Dr. Shuping for?

5. What does Price say he was taking for pain?

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