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Abraham Verghese
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My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Abraham Verghese
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Abraham's first AIDS patient?
(a) 40s.
(b) 50s.
(c) 30s.
(d) 20s.

2. What time was Abraham on his way to the ICU at the Miracle Center on June 10, 1987?
(a) 6 a.m.
(b) 5 a.m.
(c) 6:30 a.m.
(d) 7:30 a.m.

3. After a code blue was called on a young man admitted in August of 1985 to the Johnson City Medical Center, who performed the chest compression?
(a) Ray.
(b) A beefy intern.
(c) Claire.
(d) An ICU nurse.

4. What type of car did Vickie McCray drive?
(a) Probe.
(b) Escort.
(c) Cavalier.
(d) Torino.

5. How old were many of the patients at the Mountain Home VA when they began smoking?
(a) 14 or 15.
(b) 9 or 10.
(c) 17 or 18.
(d) 7 or 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long were church services that Abraham attended as a child in Ethiopia?

2. What was Otis Jackson's CD4 count?

3. How long after the first AIDS patient is treated in Johnson City does Abraham return to Tennessee?

4. What did Abraham sing to his son Steven for a goodnight song?

5. Where does Abraham say that HIV came from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a doctor look for in a patient exam?

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

3. A young man is taken to the ER on August 11, 1985; how do his parents react when they learn he has AIDS?

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

5. Why did Abraham's grandfather finally let Abraham's mother, Miriam, go to Ethiopia to teach?

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

7. What is given to a young man who was driving from New York to his parents' home in Johnson, after he awakes frightened in the ICU?

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

9. Where did Abraham serve as a physician in Johnson City?

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

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