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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 kind of flowers did Essie buy for Gordon's casket.

2. If Ed Maupin had been wearing a robe, what could he have played in a Biblical story?

3. What happened to Gordon two nights after he and his father came for a checkup with Abraham?

4. How many times was Gordon hospitalized with bronchitis between the ages of 4-7?

5. When did Abraham arrive in America as a rookie doctor?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe what Abraham saw when he went to the cemetery where Gordon was buried.

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

7. What lingers in his mind when Abraham thinks back to his first AIDS patients?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Using examples from "My Own Country", discuss the reasons why Abraham decided to specialize in infectious diseases.

Essay Topic 3

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

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