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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Price learned about pain, in biofeedback?
(a) Not to focus on his pain.
(b) To shut off his emotional reaction to his pain.
(c) To embrace the pain.
(d) To relax each muscle individually.

2. How does Price describe his mobility while writing Kate Vaiden?
(a) Nearly housebound.
(b) A good deal of freedom of mobility.
(c) Completely housebound.
(d) Limited mobility.

3. What did Dr. Friedman give Price when the pains returned?
(a) A sedative.
(b) An antidepressant.
(c) A stimulant.
(d) Morphine.

4. What did Price learn to do in biofeedback?
(a) Isolate his muscle movements.
(b) Regulate his pH.
(c) Breathe into his muscles.
(d) Focus on particular parts of his body.

5. Where did Reynolds Price and Daniel Voll travel to together?
(a) To Arkansas for rehearsals.
(b) To New York for experimental treatments.
(c) To Washington D.C. for a literary award ceremony.
(d) To California to visit his family.

6. What does Price say his outlook was, at the end of chapter 6?
(a) He knew he could live with whatever came.
(b) He was determined to kill himself before he lived with his pains again.
(c) He was afraid of dying.
(d) He dreaded another round of pain and surgery.

7. What does Price say he was taking for pain?
(a) Ibuprofen.
(b) Tylenol.
(c) Oxycontin.
(d) Morphine.

8. What did Patrick Louge teach Price?
(a) Stretching exercises.
(b) Nutrition.
(c) Self-hypnosis.
(d) Spiritual practices.

9. What did MRIs indicate about Price's tumor, in 1987?
(a) Reduction in size.
(b) Aggressive growth.
(c) No growth.
(d) Decay of the vertebrae around it.

10. How did Reynolds Price injure himself?
(a) He fell in the bathroom.
(b) He toppled over in his wheelchair.
(c) He hit his head.
(d) He cut himself.

11. What does Price say Daniel Voll would do 'happily' for him and his visitors?
(a) Read and edit works.
(b) Cook.
(c) Leave them in peace.
(d) Shopping and errands.

12. Where does Dan establish himself?
(a) The basement.
(b) The spare bedroom.
(c) The dining room.
(d) The master bedroom.

13. What was Dr. Shuping's prognosis?
(a) That Price's outlook for walking was not good.
(b) That he would likely be paralyzed permanently.
(c) That surgery might help him.
(d) That he might eventually get some relief from pain.

14. What damage did the doctors find when they examined Price?
(a) He had broken his bones in a fall years ago.
(b) He had been damaged in surgery.
(c) He had been losing muscle mass for years.
(d) His blood was getting too thin.

15. What did Daniel Voll have installed in the house?
(a) An elevator.
(b) Grab bars.
(c) Video monitors.
(d) Ramps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Price say accompanied his pains, now?

2. What was the 'new demon' Price encountered after surgery?

3. What changed when Reynolds Price injured himself?

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

5. What does Price say his health was doing while he was writing the commissioned work?

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