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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 teachers came from India to teach in Ethiopia?

2. Where did Fred Goodson study his junior year in college?

3. Where did Fred Goodson live when he quit trying to hide the fact that he was gay?

4. How old was Cindy Johnson when Abraham met her?

5. What type of cancer had Essie had?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were two problems with the foreign physicians that the staff at the Mountain Home VA had to deal with?

2. What places had Abraham visited in Abingdon, Virginia?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did Gordon feel after his baptism?

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

Discuss why Abraham faced a dilemma whenever he had to ask a surgeon to operate on an HIV-infected patient, using examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 25, Abraham consults Osler to try to find information about the kind of medicine he wants to practice. Discuss the type of medicine that Abraham wanted to practice. Use examples from the book.

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