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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Peru branch of Partners in Health as a result of the civil war?
(a) The facility is moved into a local church.
(b) The entire facility is set on fire.
(c) Construction is halted.
(d) The pharmacy is bombed.

2. What is the name of the Partners in Health facility in Peru?
(a) Socios en Salud.
(b) Medico Soluciones Peru.
(c) Amigos para Salud.
(d) Soluciones Sanitarias.

3. How do Paul Farmer's colleagues consider his actions during Haiti's troubles in the early 1990s?
(a) Strategic.
(b) Cautious.
(c) Reckless.
(d) Haphazard.

4. What does Zanmi Lasante mean?
(a) One world, united.
(b) Health for Haitians.
(c) Partners in Health.
(d) Free Health Services.

5. Where does Paul work when he first goes to Haiti?
(a) Cange Care Haiti.
(b) Dahl Croix Medical.
(c) Eye Care Haiti.
(d) Artibonte Clinique.

6. What is DOTS?
(a) A fund raising organization based in Boston.
(b) Paul Farmer's recommended approach for curing TB.
(c) A sister facilty to Partners in Health.
(d) The traditional regimen for treating resistant TB.

7. What other diseases are the patients that Paul Farmer sees in Haiti very likely to have in conjunction with Tuberculosis, according to comments in Medicos Aventureros?
(a) HIV and AIDS.
(b) Scarlett Fever and Sepsis.
(c) Typhoid and Rheumatism.
(d) Dysentry and Malaria.

8. Who funds Kay Epin?
(a) Jim Yong Kim.
(b) Ophelia's father.
(c) Tom White.
(d) Ophelia.

9. What does the South Carolina church invest in for the people of Cange?
(a) Antibacterial soap.
(b) Material for new roofs.
(c) Water spigots.
(d) Wood to build out houses.

10. How does Father Jack die?
(a) Colon Cancer.
(b) MDR TB.
(c) Malaria.
(d) A car accident.

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

12. Why doesn't Paul return to Haiti in September of 1991?
(a) The government denies him access.
(b) His father is sick and dying.
(c) His Boston based business is failing.
(d) His paralysis keeps him in Boston.

13. Who secured the future of Partners in Health by securing the $45 million endowment?
(a) Jim Yong Kim.
(b) Ophelia.
(c) Paul Farmer.
(d) Tracy Kidder.

14. What organization, in addition to the World Health Organization, does Paul Farmer present his MDR TB findings to after meeting Senora Brigada?
(a) DOTS.
(b) Doctors without Borders.
(c) The Gates Foundation.
(d) International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

15. Who is Senora Brigada?
(a) A Peruvian scientist.
(b) A hospital administrator.
(c) A patient with MDR TB.
(d) A Pervuian heiress.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Paul and Father Jack first meet?

2. How old is Paul Farmer when he and Tracy Kidder first meet?

3. What organization endows Partners in Health with a $45 million grant?

4. What is true of Tom White?

5. What award does Paul Farmer receive in the summer of 1993?

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