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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. What work was Price waiting to resume while he was in radiation therapy?

2. What is Marcia Bennett's relation with Reynolds Price?

3. How did Price's radiologist describe the radiation therapy he would receive?

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

5. How does Price spend his time on returning home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How athletic was Price?

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

3. Describe Price's physical deterioration after radiation therapy.

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

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

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

7. What does Price say he had to do, before he asked Marcia Bennett about staying with her?

8. What does Price say he did to make his condition more bearable?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a character sketch of the author based on his style and content. What values does he hold dear? What are his hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think he is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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