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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Price's gait affected by his condition?

2. What had the surgeon discovered?

3. What does Price say was difficult about entering radiation therapy?

4. What test provided answers for Price?

5. What has Reynolds Price's health been like, up to this point?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Price's doctors recommend for the next step after surgery?

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

3. What does Price say was the good news in his prognosis?

4. Where did Price go from Marcia Bennett's house?

5. What did Price's friend from Florida do for him?

6. What was Price's condition when he stayed with Marcia Bennett?

7. What resources did Price call on for help with his condition?

8. How does Price say his relationship with Jesus changed throughout the course of his cancer treatment?

9. 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?

10. What does Price say he learned about his tumor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Price says that illness was new in his life, but at the beginning of the book, he was 51, and just starting to see the effect of age. Using examples from the text, describe how Price had expected his future to go, and how it differed from the future he expected to have. How did Price prepare himself for the future he expected to have? How well prepared was he for the future he had to live with instead?

Essay Topic 2

What are the different jobs this book does? (Consoling, expressing emotions, testifying, educating, entertaining, etc.) Which jobs does it finish, and which jobs does it do intermittently? Which things does it do for you as a reader? What jobs do you think it did best for Price?

Essay Topic 3

Use this book as a meditation on the value of a five-star rating system. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

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