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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many representations does Price say he made of the thing Marcia Bennett urged him to portray?
(a) Dozens.
(b) A few.
(c) Several.
(d) Scores.

2. What was Price given for the next few days after surgery?
(a) Morphine.
(b) Oxycontin.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Aspirin.

3. What muscles could Reynolds Price no longer control?
(a) Facial muscles.
(b) Back muscles.
(c) Leg muscles.
(d) Stomach muscles.

4. What did Price resolve to do, starting a few days after surgery?
(a) Make a will.
(b) Let the cancer take its course.
(c) Fight the cancer with everything he had.
(d) Document everything that happened.

5. Where did Marcia Bennett and Reynolds Price move to?
(a) New York.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Florida.
(d) Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the prognosis after the first round of tests?

2. What had the surgeon discovered?

3. What did Price dream vividly about?

4. Which physical problem has Reynolds Price NOT encountered at the beginning of "A Whole New Life"?

5. What does Price say he had to do to call Marcia Bennett?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Price say he asked for the morning after he heard the voice tell him what kind of suffering he would have to endure?

2. What effect did radiation therapy have on Price's body?

3. Describe Price's profound dream.

4. What was "The Eel"?

5. What was Price's emotional reaction to his condition?

6. What does Price say was most difficult about the early weeks of radiation therapy?

7. What was Reynolds Price's condition at the beginning of the "A Whole New Life"?

8. What did Price draw on Marcia Bennett's urging?

9. What was the first prognosis for Price's condition?

10. How did Price's health change after the first surgery?

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