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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Tin Roofs of Cange, pages 45-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What action does Paul Farmer take after meeting and examining the patient named Joe in 1999?
(a) Sends him home with his mother.
(b) Pays for his funeral.
(c) Admits him to the hospital.
(d) Arranges to speak to his congressman.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zanmi Lasante mean?

2. What does Paul Farmer give the patient Joe for Christmas?

3. How is Paul's knee shattered in 1988?

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

5. Who was Paul's mentor?

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