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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fritz Lafontant give Paul Farmer permission to do in Cange?
(a) Test residents for TB.
(b) Build a school.
(c) Conduct a census.
(d) Collect blood samples for research.

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

3. Why does the staff at Zanmi Lasante believe the cure rate for Tuberculosis is so low?
(a) The medicine sent to Haiti is tainted.
(b) Patients stop taking the medicine.
(c) Haitians are more susceptible to its effects.
(d) It is not TB that is making the people sick.

4. How does Paul Farmer say he was allowed to return to Haiti after being exiled by the junta?
(a) He carries a false passport.
(b) The new regime invited him to return.
(c) A bribe.
(d) Blackmail.

5. What organization endows Partners in Health with a $45 million grant?
(a) Doctors without Borders.
(b) The World Health Organization.
(c) Tom White's Partners Worldwide.
(d) The Gates Foundation.

6. Why did the people that Paul Farmer work with in Haiti lose their farms?
(a) A drought killed the crops.
(b) A dam flooded the farmlands.
(c) Heavy rains ruined the farmlands.
(d) Years of poor farming killed the soil.

7. What disease is Paul Farmer diagnosed with after marrying in 1996?
(a) Shingles.
(b) MDR TB.
(c) Hepatitis A.
(d) Multiple Sclerosis.

8. What school does Paul Farmer get his medical degree from?
(a) Boston University.
(b) Berkley.
(c) University of Texas.
(d) Harvard.

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

10. Who does Paul Farmer marry?
(a) Artibonte.
(b) Ophelia.
(c) Didi.
(d) Catherine.

11. Who is Arata Kochi?
(a) A college friend of Paul's who teaches in France.
(b) The head of the World Health Organization's TB program.
(c) The head of the Gates Foundation's TB Program.
(d) A fundraiser at a hospital in Paris.

12. What is Ophelia's nickname for Paul Farmer?
(a) Dokte.
(b) PF.
(c) Ghandi.
(d) PJ.

13. What is the name of Paul Farmer's daughter?
(a) Michelle.
(b) Francesa.
(c) Dierdre.
(d) Catherine.

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

15. Where do Paul and Father Jack first meet?
(a) Zanmi Lasante.
(b) A church in Boston.
(c) Peru.
(d) Brigham and Women's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is dechoukaj?

2. What happens in Haitian politics in 1990?

3. Who is Senora Brigada?

4. Who arranges for Paul Farmer and his wife to vacation in France while he is recovering from his illness?

5. How is Paul's knee shattered in 1988?

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