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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 old were the "girls" who worked in the offices of the tobacco warehouses calculating the worth of baskets of tobacco?

2. What was Gordon's temperature when Abraham examined him for the first time?

3. What type of work did Abraham do when his medical education was interrupted?

4. What did Abraham like to do on Sunday mornings?

5. What was Otis Jackson's CD4 count?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some places where Abraham goes with his son Steven in the evening?

2. What inspired Fred Goodson to lose weight when he was in college?

3. What were two problems with the foreign physicians that the staff at the Mountain Home VA had to deal with?

4. Why didn't Abraham go to Gordon's funeral?

5. What does Gordon tell Essie about the vision of Jesus that he saw?

6. How does Gordon say that he has been feeling?

7. How had Abraham's Wednesday afternoon clinic changed by 1987?

8. How did Gordon feel after his baptism?

9. Describe what Abraham saw when he went to the cemetery where Gordon was buried.

10. How could Abraham have influenced Ed's family to not put him on a respirator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, discuss why Abraham was so interested in learning about a "good" death.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why Abraham thinks that if the young man who drove from New York to Johnson City six years ago would have made his journey in 1989, he would find a community better equipped to deal with him and accept him.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast how nurses and hospital staff treated AIDS patients at the Miracle Center. Use examples from the book.

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