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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 Dan's role in maintaining Price's balance of mind?

2. What kind of program does Price say he entered after biofeedback?

3. What was Reynolds Price offered in November?

4. What was Price's original opinion of biofeedback?

5. What did Dr. Friedman give Price when the pains returned?

Short Essay Questions

1. What benefit did Price derive from his hypnosis?

2. What advice does Price offer to doctors?

3. What prognosis doe Dr. Shuping give Price?

4. How does Price say he thought about his future?

5. Describe Price's experience with hypnosis as a treatment.

6. How did Price's community react to his being housebound?

7. What kinds of pain led Dr. Friedman to recommend biofeedback for Price?

8. How was Price managing the pain, when he returned to live at home?

9. Describe Price's first trip after physical therapy.

10. Describe Price's second surgery.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Reynolds Price's faith, and how does it make it easier for him to endure the ordeal of his cancer treatment? What practices does his faith entail, and what religious images does he use in crafting his account of his ordeal. Using examples from the text, describe the role of religion in Price's life.

Essay Topic 2

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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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