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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. Who is Jeff Anderson?
2. What did Reynolds Price's dying friend tell him?
3. What did Reynolds Price begin to feel after the anesthesia wore off?
4. What did Price's body fail to do when his brain told him to do it?
5. What is Marcia Bennett's husband's profession?
Short Essay Questions
1. What effect did radiation therapy have on Price's body?
2. Where did Price go from Marcia Bennett's house?
3. How does Price say his relationship with Jesus changed throughout the course of his cancer treatment?
4. Describe Price's physical deterioration after radiation therapy.
5. Describe Price's profound dream.
6. What does Price say he had to do, before he asked Marcia Bennett about staying with her?
7. What radiation regimen was Price placed on?
8. Describe Price's stay with Marcia Bennett.
9. How did Price's health change after the first surgery?
10. What had doctors found in the surgery?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Price says that illness was new in his life, but at the beginning of the book, he was 51, and just starting to see the effect of age. Using examples from the text, describe how Price had expected his future to go, and how it differed from the future he expected to have. How did Price prepare himself for the future he expected to have? How well prepared was he for the future he had to live with instead?
Essay Topic 2
Price says that he considers his old self dead. In what way is "A Whole New Life" a ritual of renewal, or a ceremony of rebirth? In what ways is Price reborn, and how does the image of his rebirth resonate with other of his experiences? Using examples from the text, describe the significance of Price's rebirth in "A Whole New Life".
Essay Topic 3
How does Price's career interact with his illness? Does he benefit by it in his writing? What allows Price to put his experiences to use, and what kinds of experiences remain beyond him as a writer? As a man? Using examples from the text, describe the effect of Price's illness on his writing, and vice versa.
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