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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. What was Bobby Keller's favorite dessert?

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

4. What did Ed Maupin do for a living?

5. What year did Abraham hear from Essie Vines again?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss why the staff at the VA hospital sometimes had problems with foreign physicians. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, explain what Abraham meant when he said that doctors were reimbursed for doing, not for thinking.

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