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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 baseball team was Norman's passion?

2. Where was the most comfortable place in America in the 1970s to live an openly gay life?

3. What was the basis for Bess Johnson's masters thesis?

4. What song would Norman Sanger listen to when, as a child, he would wake with pain in the night?

5. Who tried to be first in the chow line at the VA hospital?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Abraham believe that HIV is a disease that has been imported to east Tennessee?

3. What did Hobart Carter want done with his body after his death?

4. How did Will Johnson contract HIV?

5. What brought Vickie, Bobby, and Jacko together?

6. What was the uniform of gay men in the 1970s?

7. Who was Lorraine Day, and what did she say about AIDS?

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

9. What worry did Otis Jackson have as he neared the end of his life?

10. In February of 1988, why did Abraham's duties at the VA take on a new twist?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the deaths of various patients affected Abraham. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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

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