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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. What three things does Paul Farmer say are co-infectious in his second lecture in Cuba?
(a) Wealth, ignorance, and success.
(b) Poverty, inequality, and poor health.
(c) Infectious disease, poor diet, and polluted water.
(d) Wealth, poverty, and tuberculosis.

2. What is MDR TB?
(a) Muscular diabetic tuberculosis.
(b) Multidrug resistant tuberculosis.
(c) Muscular dystrophic tuberculosis.
(d) Multiple disease related tuberculosis.

3. What does Paul Farmer say the world needs to care less about in order to create successes like those in Haiti?
(a) Finances and politics.
(b) Hollywood and the policital machine.
(c) Power and on-up-man-ship.
(d) Wealth and designer clothes.

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

5. What is Paul Farmer's desire, as stated in the O to the P section?
(a) To cure the world.
(b) The cure Haiti.
(c) To inspire the world to heal.
(d) To create a small example for the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Father Jack die?

2. What disease is Paul Farmer diagnosed with after marrying in 1996?

3. Who is Ophelia Dahl?

4. Why does Paul Farmer tell Tracy Kidder that he can't slow down a pace he knows is much too fast?

5. Where do Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim get many of the drugs for their facility in Peru?

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