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

2. What is true about the drug for Tuberculosis, according to Paul Farmer?
(a) It is a very forgiving drug.
(b) They must be take at regular intervals.
(c) They tend to make children even more ill.
(d) It is easy to misdose the very young and the elderly.

3. Why does Paul Farmer tell Tracy Kidder that he can't slow down a pace he knows is much too fast?
(a) He's chasing a moving goal.
(b) He's afraid Catherine will be disappointed in him.
(c) He can't seem to locate the brake.
(d) He's afraid someone will die needlessly.

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

5. What does the book say Paul Farmer earned a reputation for by the late 1990s?
(a) A relentless lobbyist for the poor.
(b) His fundraising-by-guilt tactics.
(c) His unorthodox epidemiological views.
(d) A specialist in the field of TB.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the cost when Paul Farmer seeks treatment for cases that are too complicated or outside of his specialty?

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

3. What is the Artibonte?

4. What does the South Carolina church invest in for the people of Cange?

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

(see the answer key)

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