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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. Where did Gordon have his HIV test done?

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

3. What was Fred Goodson's occupation when he met Abraham?

4. How old were many of the patients at the Mountain Home VA when they began smoking?

5. Where did Abraham finish medical school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Abraham compare the facilities for doctors at the Miracle Center and the VA hospital?

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

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

4. How did the nurses treat Gordon at the hospital?

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

6. Why did the barns of Tennessee fascinate Abraham?

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the deaths of various patients affected Abraham. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Abraham's view of the physician-patient relationship with the views of other doctors mentioned in the book.

Essay Topic 3

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

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