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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 many good years did Norman promise Claire when he asked her to marry him?

2. What part of the body does acalculous cholecystitis affect?

3. How much did it cost to treat Scotty Daws in the ICU?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 22, who did Vickie McCray say were her two best friends?

5. Who tried to be first in the chow line at the VA hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did an intern warn Bess Johnson about?

2. How did Will Johnson contract HIV?

3. What worry did Otis Jackson have as he neared the end of his life?

4. Who was Lorraine Day, and what did she say about AIDS?

5. What does Rajani suggest she and Abraham do the morning after Thanksgiving, and what does Abraham say in reply?

6. Why wasn't Luther Hines staying with his parents?

7. What were the circumstances surrounding Will Johnson's heart attack?

8. Why was Rajani reluctant about the move to Iowa?

9. Why was Abraham faced with a dilemma when any of his HIV-infected patients required surgery?

10. Why did Abraham stop referring patients to the gastroenterologist who saw Will Johnson?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rajani is not pleased to be leaving Tennessee. Discuss why Rajani agrees to move to Iowa. Use examples from "My Own Country".

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Vickie changed after she and her husband were diagnosed with HIV. Were these changes positive or negative?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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