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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through O for the P, pages 238-298.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Paul Farmer refer to poverty in A Light Month for Travel?
(a) As a social condition.
(b) As this century's Black Plague.
(c) An inherited disease.
(d) A curse.

2. Where are the two characters in Mountains Beyond Mountains headed at the end of the story?
(a) To France.
(b) To an operating room in Zanmi Lasante.
(c) To a medical conference in Russia.
(d) On an eleven hour journey to visit patients.

3. What is ti kay?
(a) A small boat.
(b) A small house.
(c) The Haitian word for medicine.
(d) A good luck ornament.

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

5. What additional treatment does Paul Farmer want to bring to Haiti in A Light Month for Travel?
(a) Dialysis.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) AIDS treatment.
(d) Blood transfusions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What resulted from the case of John that is told in the O for the P?

2. How does Paul Farmer channel his anger, according to Tracy Kidder?

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

4. What does Paul Farmer send to Tracy Kidder before returning to Haiti for New Year's Day 2000?

5. Who is Jorge Perez?

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