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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. What is Paul Farmer's opinion on the role of the rich in poverty?
(a) Rich people are obligated to care for the poor.
(b) Until the rich are forced to live like paupers, nothing will ever change.
(c) The rich create it and encourage poverty by their lack of response.
(d) While they can't be blamed, they must act now.

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

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

4. What is the Artibonte?
(a) A river.
(b) A Haitian dialect.
(c) A clinic.
(d) A dam.

5. 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) Incubation equipment.
(c) Heart rate monitors.
(d) Blood transfusion equipment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is DOTS?

3. What is true of Paul Farmer when he and Tracy Kidder meet again in 1999?

4. What symptoms of TB did the patient named Joe exhibit in 1999?

5. What amount of debt does Tom White pay for medicine taken by Paul and Jim, as noted in the Medicos Aventureros section?

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