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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. Why doesn't Paul return to Haiti in September of 1991?
(a) His Boston based business is failing.
(b) His father is sick and dying.
(c) His paralysis keeps him in Boston.
(d) The government denies him access.

2. Why does the staff at Zanmi Lasante believe the cure rate for Tuberculosis is so low?
(a) Patients stop taking the medicine.
(b) Haitians are more susceptible to its effects.
(c) The medicine sent to Haiti is tainted.
(d) It is not TB that is making the people sick.

3. What is the top reason mentioned that Paul Farmer has an interest in AIDS?
(a) He believes a cure is close to being found.
(b) It results from social inequality.
(c) His brother died of AIDS.
(d) AIDS encourages the spread of TB.

4. What happens to the Peru branch of Partners in Health as a result of the civil war?
(a) Construction is halted.
(b) The entire facility is set on fire.
(c) The pharmacy is bombed.
(d) The facility is moved into a local church.

5. What is dechoukaj?
(a) The removal of all outward signs of a government.
(b) A ceremonial meal that shows gratitude.
(c) A voodoo cure for disease.
(d) A method of blood transfusion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Paul Farmer travel light when he flies?

2. Who does Paul Farmer say that the women of Haiti caught HIV from?

3. Who funds Kay Epin?

4. What religion does the book say that Paul Farmer struggled with?

5. Who is Ophelia Dahl?

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