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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. 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) An ICU nurse.
(b) Claire.
(c) Ray.
(d) A beefy intern.

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

3. Who was Abraham's research assistant for his experiments with hamsters?
(a) Abigail Smythe.
(b) Martha Simmons.
(c) Betty Franzus.
(d) Peggy Wyatt.

4. What job was Clyde McCray working when he got sick?
(a) Sewer worker.
(b) Graveyard digger.
(c) Short-order cook.
(d) Truck Driver.

5. Three weeks after Gordon was admitted to the hospital, what did he tell his mother he saw?
(a) An angel.
(b) His grandfather who had died when he was a boy.
(c) Jesus Christ.
(d) His deceased grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the first place that Abraham experienced racism?

2. How many days after Scotty Daws was admitted to the Miracle Center did he lose the ability to speak?

3. What was Otis Jackson's occupation?

4. How many teachers came from India to teach in Ethiopia?

5. When were the brick buildings built for the Mountain Home VA?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

6. Why were Abraham's first days in Boston anxious and disorienting?

7. How did Gordon feel after his baptism?

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

9. What were some of Fred Goodson's activities after he got his degree in Wisconsin and returned to Tennessee?

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

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