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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 award does Paul Farmer receive in the summer of 1993?
(a) The MacArthur Award.
(b) The Turner Fellowship.
(c) The Caldecott Award.
(d) The Nobel Peace Prize.

2. What organization supports the creation of generic version of TB drugs, beside the World Health Organization, according to the Medicos Aventureros section?
(a) Internation Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
(b) UNICEF.
(c) The Catholic Church.
(d) Doctors without Borders.

3. Where does the book stay that AIDS patients in Cuba were quarantined?
(a) At a hospital in Havana.
(b) At a prison in Havana.
(c) At a clinic called Socios de Cuba.
(d) Near Havana in a country side hacienda.

4. Who is Julianna DeWolf?
(a) A reporter.
(b) Paul's first love.
(c) A nun.
(d) A doctor.

5. What does Paul Farmer switch his major from when he enters Harvard Medical School?
(a) Sociology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Research science.
(d) Computer science.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the hospital where Paul Farmer works four months out of the year?

2. What disease does Paul contract on his first visit to Cange?

3. Why is Tracy Kidder in Haiti in 1994?

4. What happens in Haitian politics in 1990?

5. Who is Jorge Perez?

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