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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who discovers that many patents on TB drugs are expired and argues for the creation of generic versions?
(a) Jim Yong Kim.
(b) Arata Kochi.
(c) Ophelia.
(d) Paul Farmer.

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

3. How is Paul's knee shattered in 1988?
(a) He is attacked.
(b) He is in a collapsing building.
(c) He is in a plane crash.
(d) He is hit by a car.

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

5. Who is Julianna DeWolf?
(a) Paul's first love.
(b) A reporter.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A nun.

6. How old is Paul Farmer when he and Tracy Kidder first meet?
(a) 88.
(b) 15.
(c) 35.
(d) 49.

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

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

9. Who provides the funding to bring Partners in Health to Peru?
(a) Didi Bertrand.
(b) Tom White.
(c) Senora Brigada.
(d) Ophelia's father.

10. What is Partners in Health?
(a) Ophelia's hospital in Cange.
(b) Paul Farmer's fund raising organization.
(c) Fitz Lafontant's Clinic in Haiti.
(d) Tom White's Clinic in Boston.

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

12. What do Alex Goldfarb and Jim Yong Kim argue about at the 1998 Boston Conference?
(a) Best fundraising methods for Partners in Health.
(b) Cost effectiveness of treating MDR TB.
(c) Efficiency of generic MDR TB medications.
(d) Who should receive available doses of the MDR TB medicine.

13. What award does Paul Farmer receive in the summer of 1993?
(a) The Nobel Peace Prize.
(b) The MacArthur Award.
(c) The Turner Fellowship.
(d) The Caldecott Award.

14. Who brings Partners in Health to Peru?
(a) Senora Brigada.
(b) Jim Yong Kim.
(c) Father Jack.
(d) Ophelia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens in Haitian politics in 1990?

2. What is the junta suspected of doing in Mirebalais in the first section of the story labeled Dokte Paul?

3. Who is Jean Bertrand-Aristide?

4. What does Paul Farmer raise money for after he sees a mother and baby die during his first visit to Cange?

5. What does Paul Farmer give the patient Joe for Christmas?

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