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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 much would treatment of AZT cost a patient for a year?

2. Where did Bess Johnson attend college?

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

4. Who discovered digitalis?

5. Where did Norman Sanger's wife Claire move after Norman died?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What experience did Petie Granger and his mother have when they visited the family physician?

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

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

8. How did Will Johnson contract HIV?

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

10. What did an intern warn Bess Johnson about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from "My Own Country", discuss the reasons why Abraham decided to specialize in infectious diseases.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss the meaning of the book's title and how it relates to Abraham's search for a country. Use examples from "My Own Country".

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