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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 happened to the offer the Andersons made?

2. What was the result of the thing Dan convinced Price to do?

3. How long after biofeedback and hypnosis was Price pain-free?

4. What award did Kate Vaiden win?

5. What changed that allowed Price to return to writing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Price say about the pain he felt after falling from his wheelchair?

2. Describe Price's withdrawal from methodone.

3. What prognosis doe Dr. Shuping give Price?

4. How did Price's condition change after Christmas 1985?

5. What did biofeedback entail for Price?

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

7. What did Daniel Voll do for Reynolds Price?

8. What advice does Price offer to doctors?

9. How does Price say he ended up feeling practically agoraphobic?

10. How does Price say Daniel Voll helped him when he was having a hard time accepting his condition?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did illness change Price's personality? Which change was most profound? Using examples from the text, describe the most powerful effects illness had on his life.

Essay Topic 2

Reynolds Price did not write about being homosexual until years after he wrote "A Whole New Life". Is his homosexual experience apparent in this book? How does the information that Price was gay change your reading of the book? What changes? What stays the same?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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