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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Light Month for Travel, pages 179-238.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason is given for the intensity of the Russian TB outbreak?
(a) Lack of running water.
(b) Backlogged prison systems.
(c) Lack of electricity in rural areas.
(d) Dilapadated housing.

2. How do Paul Farmer's colleagues consider his actions during Haiti's troubles in the early 1990s?
(a) Haphazard.
(b) Strategic.
(c) Reckless.
(d) Cautious.

3. What is the name of the hospital where Paul Farmer works four months out of the year?
(a) U Mass.
(b) Brigham and Women's.
(c) Mass General.
(d) Boston Children's Hospital.

4. What is DOTS?
(a) A fund raising organization based in Boston.
(b) A sister facilty to Partners in Health.
(c) Paul Farmer's recommended approach for curing TB.
(d) The traditional regimen for treating resistant TB.

5. What is true about the drug for Tuberculosis, according to Paul Farmer?
(a) It is easy to misdose the very young and the elderly.
(b) They must be take at regular intervals.
(c) It is a very forgiving drug.
(d) They tend to make children even more ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what entity does the Russian branch of PIH negotiate a loan?

2. Who is Mamito married to?

3. Where does Paul work when he first goes to Haiti?

4. What other disease do the Russian patients that Paul Farmer treats for TB also tend to have?

5. What is the name of Paul's thesis?

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