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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the radiologist describe the chance of paralysis?
(a) Good.
(b) Certain.
(c) Fifty-fifty.
(d) Small.

2. What was Price able to move when he emerged from surgery?
(a) His ankles.
(b) His fingers.
(c) His toes.
(d) His legs.

3. What did the test show was swollen?
(a) Price's back muscles.
(b) Price's spinal cord.
(c) Price's brain.
(d) The sheaths on Price's nerves.

4. What does Price say he began to do more often?
(a) Walk long distances.
(b) Fall.
(c) Cook.
(d) Feel strength returning.

5. What did Reynolds Price ask Marcia Bennett?
(a) To move in with him.
(b) Whether he could stay with her.
(c) To make love with him.
(d) To execute his estate.

6. What was Price's condition as the anesthesia wore off?
(a) Groggy.
(b) Delusional.
(c) Diabetic.
(d) Incoherent.

7. What did Price resolve to do, starting a few days after surgery?
(a) Document everything that happened.
(b) Fight the cancer with everything he had.
(c) Let the cancer take its course.
(d) Make a will.

8. What was Price's condition when he returned home?
(a) He was paralyzed.
(b) He was still mobile.
(c) He was still in bed.
(d) He was still groggy and in pain.

9. What test provided answers for Price?
(a) Blood test.
(b) Colonscopy.
(c) Myeolgram.
(d) Cardiogram.

10. What was the title of the work Price created in homage to his tumor?
(a) The Exhaustion.
(b) The Eel.
(c) The Octopus.
(d) The Vampire.

11. What did Reynolds Price's dying friend tell him?
(a) That he would not die.
(b) That he was definitely dying.
(c) That he was undergoing a transformation that may or may not involve dying.
(d) What dying is like.

12. What was the cause of Price's problems?
(a) A cyst.
(b) A buildup of plaque.
(c) A malformation of the bone.
(d) A lack of iron.

13. Which condition is NOT emblematic of Cushing's disease?
(a) Terrible mood swings.
(b) Oddly swollen face.
(c) Huge appetite.
(d) Baldness.

14. Who is Jeff Anderson?
(a) Price's brother.
(b) Price's son.
(c) Price's friend.
(d) Price's student.

15. What is Marcia Bennett's husband's profession?
(a) Psychiatrist.
(b) Plumber.
(c) Physician.
(d) Professor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Marcia Bennett urge Reynolds Price to portray?

2. What has Reynolds Price's health been like, up to this point?

3. What is Marcia Bennett's relation with Reynolds Price?

4. What pastime could Price no longer enjoy while he was undergoing radiation therapy?

5. Which physical problem has Reynolds Price NOT encountered at the beginning of "A Whole New Life"?

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