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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 is one symptom of Haiti's problems in 2000?
(a) The turmoil among the working class.
(b) The debt load of the goverment.
(c) The closing of health clinics.
(d) The growing dysentry epidemic.

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

3. What countries does Paul Farmer approach for assistance with the doctors and money he needs in A Light Month for Travel?
(a) Cuba and France.
(b) The United States and Peru.
(c) Cuba and Peru.
(d) France and the United States.

4. What does Paul Farmer begin to do in the late 1990s, according to A Light Month for Travel?
(a) Visit Washington, DC monthly.
(b) Speak and teach.
(c) Spend more time with his family.
(d) Train a successor.

5. What does Paul Farmer switch his major from when he enters Harvard Medical School?
(a) Computer science.
(b) Sociology.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Research science.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did receiving the Gates endowment affect the fund-raising efforts by Partners in Health?

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

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

4. Who is Fritz Lafontant?

5. What organization, in addition to the World Health Organization, does Paul Farmer present his MDR TB findings to after meeting Senora Brigada?

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