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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 was Otis Jackson's CD4 count?

2. At the VA hospital, what was the nickname for the room where veterans were moved when they were dying?

3. What type of clothes was Gordon buried in?

4. Where was the first place that Abraham experienced racism?

5. How many hours did Gordon and his father drive for his follow-up with Abraham?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Gordon feel after his baptism?

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

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

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

6. Why did the barns of Tennessee fascinate Abraham?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why Abraham thinks that if the young man who drove from New York to Johnson City six years ago would have made his journey in 1989, he would find a community better equipped to deal with him and accept him.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Abraham's view of the physician-patient relationship with the views of other doctors mentioned in the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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