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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Price feel about the work ahead of him?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Listless.
(c) Impatient.
(d) Depressed.

2. What pastime could Price no longer enjoy while he was undergoing radiation therapy?
(a) Reading.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Tennis.
(d) Long walks.

3. How does Price describe radiation therapy?
(a) Hardly anything.
(b) A kind of death.
(c) Torture.
(d) Not horrible.

4. What was Price given for the next few days after surgery?
(a) Aspirin.
(b) Morphine.
(c) Oxycontin.
(d) Nothing.

5. How was Price's will changing as he continued through therapy?
(a) He was spending more and more time in total panic.
(b) He was full of blind desire to live at any cost.
(c) He was praying and meditating to strengthen his resolve.
(d) He was sure that he could bargain with God or the Fates or whoever was in charge of his illness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Price's social circle change as he continued with radiation therapy?

3. What does Price say was difficult about entering radiation therapy?

4. What was Price able to move when he emerged from surgery?

5. Where did Price work with Diana Betz?

(see the answer key)

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