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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. What was Abraham's favorite doughnut?

2. For how many years did Gordon disappear?

3. Where did Gordon have his HIV test done?

4. What is Essie's job at the hospital where she works?

5. What type of clothes was Gordon buried in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the staff quarters where Abraham and Rajani lived in Tennessee.

2. What did Essie have to make the funeral director do after she had Gordon's coffin opened?

3. What did Vickie McCary do when she learned her husband Clyde had AIDS?

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

5. How did Gordon feel after his baptism?

6. What was done with the respirator that was used on the first AIDS patient in Johnson City in 1985?

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

8. What did Abraham learn about unexplained fevers in AIDS patients as he gained experience?

9. How did Christianity come to the Malabar coast of India?

10. What places had Abraham visited in Abingdon, Virginia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from "My Own Country", compare and contrast the reactions of families when they learned that a family member was HIV-infected.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the conflict that Abraham struggled with concerning his desire to help his patients as much as possible without taking away time from his family.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, explain what Abraham meant when he said that doctors were reimbursed for doing, not for thinking.

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