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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 tall was Hobart Carter?

2. Where did Sue McCoy train?

3. How old was Raleigh when he become an alcoholic?

4. Which of Abraham's patients liked to use the phrase "accentuate the positive"?

5. In Chapter 26, when does Abraham realize that he had seen Luther Hines before?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Abraham stop referring patients to the gastroenterologist who saw Will Johnson?

2. What did the doctors at Duke tell Will when he said he wanted a meeting with all his doctors?

3. How had Will and Bess Johnson planned their funerals?

4. Why was Abraham faced with a dilemma when any of his HIV-infected patients required surgery?

5. What did an intern warn Bess Johnson about?

6. What did Will Johnson want to do when he was at Duke and it looked as though surgery was his next option?

7. Why wasn't Luther Hines staying with his parents?

8. Why was Rajani reluctant about the move to Iowa?

9. How did Will Johnson contract HIV?

10. Why, after Norman's death, does Abraham always decide to have morphine available for his patients?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Will Johnson believed that HIV was a test. Discuss what Will Johnson meant when he said that HIV was a test for him. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

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 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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