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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. How does Price say his condition changed after Christmas 1985?

2. What good news did Dr. Shuping give Price?

3. What did MRIs indicate about Price's tumor, in 1987?

4. What was Price able to do after Christmas 1985?

5. How does Price describe his mobility while writing Kate Vaiden?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What professional triumphs did Price enjoy in the winter of 1987?

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

4. What benefit did Price derive from his hypnosis?

5. What prognosis doe Dr. Shuping give Price?

6. What was the new demon Price experienced after his second surgery?

7. What did biofeedback entail for Price?

8. Describe Price's reunion with Daniel Voll.

9. Describe Price's second surgery.

10. Describe the story Price told when he was commissioned by Hendrix College.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Price's account of the medical establishment. What insights does he offer? What criticisms? What does Price's portrait of the medical establishment tell us about him? Using examples from the text, analyze Price's portrait of doctors and nurses and support therapists he met. What recommendations and reforms would his book suggest?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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