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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what purpose is Partners in Health awarded $45 million by the Gates Foundation?
(a) To erase social inequalities.
(b) To educate the public, raise funds and treat MDR TB.
(c) To eradicate MDR TB.
(d) To reduce incidences of MDR TB in Haiti by 70% in 5 years.

2. What do some prominent voices in the US Government continue to argue cannot be done in 2002?
(a) Treat AIDS in desperately impoverished places.
(b) Treat MDR-TB in desperately impoverished places.
(c) Treat AIDS in unstable governments.
(d) Treat MDR-TB in unstable governments.

3. What is wrong with the patient named Joe that Dr. Farmer learns about in 1999?
(a) He is HIV posititve and an addict.
(b) His lungs are not fully formed.
(c) He is a diabetic.
(d) He has digestive problems.

4. Why is Tracy Kidder in Haiti in 1994?
(a) To write an article on the current regime.
(b) To visit a Haitian Army outpost.
(c) He is a missionary.
(d) He is on vacation.

5. Who said that the world changed yesterday when discussing the World Health Organization's long awaited adoption of new prescriptions for dealing with MDR-TB?
(a) Paul Farmer.
(b) Jim Yong Kim.
(c) Ophelia.
(d) Pere Lafountain.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Afterword, how many HIV patients does Zanmi Lasante's staff care for?

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

3. What is Tracy Kidder's job in 1994?

4. What do the people of Cange use as roofs on their homes when Paul first visits?

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

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