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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Price learned about pain, in biofeedback?
(a) To relax each muscle individually.
(b) To shut off his emotional reaction to his pain.
(c) Not to focus on his pain.
(d) To embrace the pain.

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

3. What changed that allowed Price to return to writing?
(a) His incision healed.
(b) He found someone else to help him around the house.
(c) The tumor responded to treatment.
(d) He started to take new drugs.

4. What did Price's doctor recommend?
(a) Radiation therapy.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) No action.
(d) Surgery.

5. How did Reynolds Price injure himself?
(a) He hit his head.
(b) He toppled over in his wheelchair.
(c) He cut himself.
(d) He fell in the bathroom.

6. What changed when Reynolds Price injured himself?
(a) His pain was so bad he couldn't lift his head.
(b) He lost all feeling in his legs.
(c) He damaged his internal organs.
(d) His pain actually decreased.

7. 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 on the verge of recovery.
(c) They thought he was dying of AIDS.
(d) They thought he was harboring his strength for fighting his cancer.

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

9. What did doctors do during Price's surgery at the end of the semester?
(a) Remove and drain cysts.
(b) Fix his vertebrae.
(c) Remove the tumor from his spine.
(d) Fuse his vertebrae.

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

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

12. Where did Price visit after David Lang became his assistant?
(a) London.
(b) Chicago.
(c) California.
(d) New York.

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

14. 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.

15. What did Reynolds Price see Dr. Shuping for?
(a) Headaches.
(b) Medication for his pain.
(c) A stomach condition.
(d) A second opinion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Reynolds Price offered in November?

2. What was the 'new demon' Price encountered after surgery?

3. Who was Eric Rector?

4. How does Price describe his mobility while writing Kate Vaiden?

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

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