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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 was Price able to move when he emerged from surgery?

2. What did Reynolds Price ask Marcia Bennett?

3. What is Reynolds Price's job at the beginning of the memoir?

4. What did Price's friend from Florida make sure Price had?

5. Describe the effect radiation had on Price.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How athletic was Price?

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

6. How does Price say his friends and family reacted to his illness?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Price says that he considers his old self dead. In what way is "A Whole New Life" a ritual of renewal, or a ceremony of rebirth? In what ways is Price reborn, and how does the image of his rebirth resonate with other of his experiences? Using examples from the text, describe the significance of Price's rebirth in "A Whole New Life".

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

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?

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