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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 did Price's body fail to do when his brain told him to do it?
2. What is Reynolds Price's job at the beginning of the memoir?
3. How athletic was Reynolds Price as a child?
4. Where was Marcia Bennett's husband when she was taking care of Price?
5. What did Price hear from his oncologist?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Price's condition when he emerged from surgery.
2. What resources did Price call on for help with his condition?
3. What did Price's friend from Florida do for him?
4. What did Price draw on Marcia Bennett's urging?
5. How did Reynolds Price's health begin to change?
6. What effect did radiation therapy have on Price's body?
7. Describe Price's physical deterioration after radiation therapy.
8. What does Price say was the good news in his prognosis?
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 had to do, before he asked Marcia Bennett about staying with her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Would you recommend "A Whole New Life"? For what purposes would you recommend "A Whole New Life", and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the effectiveness of surgery and biofeedback and hypnosis. How are they similar? How are they different? Why was hypnosis so effective for treating his pain? Why did it take so long for Price to try it?
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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