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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 many miles did Abraham's station wagon have on it?

2. How far did Petie Granger and his mother have to come to see Abraham at the clinic?

3. What hymn was sung at Bess Johnson's funeral?

4. Where did Abraham arrange to meet Sharon Phillips, a friend of Norman Sanger?

5. What text was used at Bess Johnson's funeral?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the administrator of the Miracle Center ask to speak with Abraham?

2. What does Bess Johnson mean when she says that the surgeon was an "outspoken Christian"?

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

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

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

6. Why was Abraham furious and humiliated after talking with the Miracle Center administrator?

7. How did Will Johnson contract HIV?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, explain what Abraham meant when he said that doctors were reimbursed for doing, not for thinking.

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 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.

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