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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. Where does the US military detain infected Haitians in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS?
(a) Guantanamo.
(b) The Artibonte Hospital.
(c) Zanmi Lasante.
(d) The prison in Port-au-Prince.

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

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

4. Why did the people that Paul Farmer work with in Haiti lose their farms?
(a) A dam flooded the farmlands.
(b) A drought killed the crops.
(c) Years of poor farming killed the soil.
(d) Heavy rains ruined the farmlands.

5. Where do Paul and Father Jack first meet?
(a) A church in Boston.
(b) Zanmi Lasante.
(c) Brigham and Women's.
(d) Peru.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Paul Farmer first attend college on a full scholarship?

2. What is the name of the second lecture that Paul Farmer gives in Cuba?

3. What is MDR TB?

4. What happens in Haitian politics in 1990?

5. Why is Paul Farmer frustrated when he first meets Tracy Kidder?

(see the answer key)

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