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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) Ophelia.
(b) Tom White.
(c) Ophelia's father.
(d) Jim Yong Kim.

2. What does Paul Farmer raise money for after he sees a mother and baby die during his first visit to Cange?
(a) X-ray machines.
(b) Heart rate monitors.
(c) Incubation equipment.
(d) Blood transfusion equipment.

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

4. How do Paul Farmer's colleagues consider his actions during Haiti's troubles in the early 1990s?
(a) Reckless.
(b) Cautious.
(c) Strategic.
(d) Haphazard.

5. What does Paul Farmer send to Tracy Kidder before returning to Haiti for New Year's Day 2000?
(a) Food.
(b) A letter.
(c) A child.
(d) A book.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Paul Farmer say he was allowed to return to Haiti after being exiled by the junta?

2. What role does Ophelia play in Paul's efforts to help the people of Haiti?

3. Why did the people that Paul Farmer work with in Haiti lose their farms?

4. What is the junta suspected of doing in Mirebalais in the first section of the story labeled Dokte Paul?

5. What is dechoukaj?

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