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

2. How many hospitals did Abraham have to cover when he had an infectious disease fellowship in Boston?

3. What did Abraham sing to his son Steven for a goodnight song?

4. When did the young man admitted to the Johnson City Medical Center August of 1985 die?

5. What type of cancer had Essie had?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the rural hospitals like where Abraham would work in small emergency rooms on weekends?

2. What were some of Fred Goodson's activities after he got his degree in Wisconsin and returned to Tennessee?

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

4. What is given to a young man who was driving from New York to his parents' home in Johnson, after he awakes frightened in the ICU?

5. How did Gordon feel after his baptism?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss whether AIDS and Abraham's work with AIDS caused problems in his marriage. Use examples from "My Own Country".

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Vickie changed after she and her husband were diagnosed with HIV. Were these changes positive or negative?

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