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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the South Carolina church invest in for the people of Cange?
(a) Antibacterial soap.
(b) Wood to build out houses.
(c) Water spigots.
(d) Material for new roofs.

2. What other diseases are the patients that Paul Farmer sees in Haiti very likely to have in conjunction with Tuberculosis, according to comments in Medicos Aventureros?
(a) HIV and AIDS.
(b) Dysentry and Malaria.
(c) Typhoid and Rheumatism.
(d) Scarlett Fever and Sepsis.

3. What does "ID" refer to when Paul Farmer refers to his patients in 1999?
(a) Inferior diabetes.
(b) Infant deaths.
(c) Irrigational diverticulitous.
(d) Infectious disease.

4. Who is Didi Bertrand?
(a) A patient with MDR TB.
(b) A member of Doctors without Borders.
(c) The daughter of the schoolmaster in Cange.
(d) The founder of DOTS.

5. What is the junta suspected of doing in Mirebalais in the first section of the story labeled Dokte Paul?
(a) Blocking aid and food supplies.
(b) Bombing a church.
(c) Beheading an official.
(d) Burning a school.

6. What school does Paul Farmer get his medical degree from?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Berkley.
(c) Boston University.
(d) University of Texas.

7. Who does Paul Farmer marry?
(a) Didi.
(b) Artibonte.
(c) Catherine.
(d) Ophelia.

8. Why is Paul Farmer frustrated when he first meets Tracy Kidder?
(a) The American idea of aid won't help Haitians.
(b) Missionaries ignore Hatian beliefs.
(c) The American Media doesn't understand the problems of Haiti.
(d) The military presence is preventing him from helping Haitians.

9. What type of map does Farmer share with Kidder in the Medicos Aventureros section?
(a) A resource map.
(b) A topographic map.
(c) A handdrawn map.
(d) An epidemiological map.

10. How does Paul Farmer say he was allowed to return to Haiti after being exiled by the junta?
(a) He carries a false passport.
(b) The new regime invited him to return.
(c) A bribe.
(d) Blackmail.

11. Why did the people that Paul Farmer work with in Haiti lose their farms?
(a) Heavy rains ruined the farmlands.
(b) A dam flooded the farmlands.
(c) Years of poor farming killed the soil.
(d) A drought killed the crops.

12. Who funds Kay Epin?
(a) Jim Yong Kim.
(b) Tom White.
(c) Ophelia.
(d) Ophelia's father.

13. Where was Paul Farmer raised?
(a) On a farm in Nebraska.
(b) On army bases all over the world.
(c) In a trailer park, boat, and bus in America.
(d) In his Grandma's house.

14. Who arranges for Paul Farmer and his wife to vacation in France while he is recovering from his illness?
(a) Alex Goldfab.
(b) Fritz Lafontant.
(c) Didi Bertrand.
(d) Ophelia.

15. What is Tracy Kidder's job in 1994?
(a) Soldier.
(b) Journalist.
(c) Clergyman.
(d) Nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Alex Goldfarb and Jim Yong Kim argue about at the 1998 Boston Conference?

2. What is wrong with the patient named Joe that Dr. Farmer learns about in 1999?

3. What do the people of Cange use as roofs on their homes when Paul first visits?

4. What action does Paul Farmer take after meeting and examining the patient named Joe in 1999?

5. What is true of the cure for Tuberculosis in Haiti at the beginning of the Medicos Aventureros section?

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