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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 Fred Goodson go to college?

2. On June 10, 1987, what time did Abraham head for home?

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

4. When did Abraham first come to America?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Abraham learn about unexplained fevers in AIDS patients as he gained experience?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did the barns of Tennessee fascinate Abraham?

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 the meaning of the book's title and how it relates to Abraham's search for a country. Use examples from "My Own Country".

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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