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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 flower did Vickie show Abraham when he visited the trailer?

2. From where did the first report of HIV-mononucleosis come from?

3. When Will Johnson was in the hospital in Johnson City, where did Abraham go to attend a national infectious diseases meeting?

4. What was the text for Will Johnson's funeral?

5. When did the "New England Journal of Medicine" finally publish the result of the AZT study?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rajani suggest she and Abraham do the morning after Thanksgiving, and what does Abraham say in reply?

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

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

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

5. How did Will Johnson contract HIV?

6. Why does Will Johnson tell Abraham that he and his wife are not facing HIV alone?

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

8. What were some problems with the first office that the Tri-City Aids Project (TAP) rented for an office?

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

10. What miracle did Norman Sanger witness when he was in his teens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Will Johnson Jr. is frustrated when a foreign physician forces his mother-in-law to stop helping Will Johnson Sr. Discuss why Will Johnson Jr. is frustrated with some foreign physicians.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from "My Own Country", compare and contrast the reactions of families when they learned that a family member was HIV-infected.

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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