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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 hospitals did Abraham have to cover when he had an infectious disease fellowship in Boston?

2. What type of car did Abraham drive?

3. When did the young man admitted to the Johnson City Medical Center August of 1985 die?

4. Why had Scotty Daws come to the emergency room?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Abraham serve as a physician in Johnson City?

2. How does Gordon say that he has been feeling?

3. A young man is taken to the ER on August 11, 1985; how do his parents react when they learn he has AIDS?

4. What did Essie have to make the funeral director do after she had Gordon's coffin opened?

5. What were church services like for Abraham in Ethiopia?

6. Why did Abraham's grandfather finally let Abraham's mother, Miriam, go to Ethiopia to teach?

7. What lingers in his mind when Abraham thinks back to his first AIDS patients?

8. What does Gordon tell Essie about the vision of Jesus that he saw?

9. Describe what Abraham saw when he went to the cemetery where Gordon was buried.

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Rajani is not pleased to be leaving Tennessee. Discuss why Rajani agrees to move to Iowa. Use examples from "My Own Country".

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book, discuss the mixed feelings that Abraham has when Rajani wants to buy a house.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 25, Abraham consults Osler to try to find information about the kind of medicine he wants to practice. Discuss the type of medicine that Abraham wanted to practice. Use examples from the book.

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