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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the book stay that AIDS patients in Cuba were quarantined?
(a) Near Havana in a country side hacienda.
(b) At a prison in Havana.
(c) At a clinic called Socios de Cuba.
(d) At a hospital in Havana.

2. How does Paul Farmer channel his anger, according to Tracy Kidder?
(a) With productivity and healing.
(b) With meditation.
(c) With karaoke.
(d) With long walks to neighboring villages.

3. How did the two AIDS quarantines mentioned in the book affect the spread of this disease?
(a) Neither one stopped the spread of the disease.
(b) Only the facility in Haiti showed success in stopping the spread of AIDS.
(c) Both show about 50% success rates in stopping the spread of AIDS.
(d) Only the facility in Cuba showed success in stopping the spread of AIDS.

4. Who helps a group of Cangeois to draft a petition for electricity to President Aristide?
(a) Tracy Kidder.
(b) Ti Fifi.
(c) Serena Koenig.
(d) Didi Farmer.

5. Who does Paul Farmer borrow money from to pay for the 2002 expansion while waiting for the Global Fund money to arrive?
(a) Bill Gates.
(b) A commerical bank in Peru.
(c) A commercial bank in Boston.
(d) Tom White.

6. What does Paul Farmer say is more important than clean clothes during the time he travels frequently in the late 1990s?
(a) Fresh underwear.
(b) A good book.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Fresh food.

7. How much money does Paul Farmer borrow to pay for the 2002 expansion while waiting for the Global Fund money to arrive?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $500,000.
(c) $250,000.
(d) $10 million.

8. Who is Serena Koenig?
(a) A lawyer from the Gates Foundation.
(b) A missionary from South Carolina.
(c) A member of the Lascahobas team.
(d) A doctor with Doctors without Borders.

9. Who is Jorge Perez?
(a) A Catholic Priest.
(b) A friend that helps with the cost of medication.
(c) The Haitian President.
(d) A man who works with Jim Yong Kim in Peru.

10. What is defined as one of the problems of Haiti in 2000?
(a) Lack of products to export.
(b) Lack of a shared language.
(c) Lack of internal structure.
(d) Lack of a competent work force.

11. How did receiving the Gates endowment affect the fund-raising efforts by Partners in Health?
(a) They cut fundraising efforts in half.
(b) They hired an outside company to manage fundraising actitivities.
(c) They continued to pursue past and new contributors.
(d) They ceased fund-raising efforts to focus on publicity.

12. How is Paul involved with the TB projects in Peru and Russia in the late 1990s?
(a) He is not; both are independent of Partners in Health.
(b) He is an advisor.
(c) He is a fundraiser only.
(d) He runs both projects.

13. Who pays for the interest payments on Paul Farmer's 2002 expansion loan?
(a) PIH employees with the highest salaries.
(b) Church members from South Carolina.
(c) Medical interns from Harvard.
(d) Doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital.

14. It's stated, in the O to the P, that some people thought that Paul Farmer was . . .
(a) Oblivious to money matters.
(b) Fastidious with funding.
(c) Reckless with financial funds.
(d) Impractical with money.

15. What happens to the prices of second line antibiotics after World Health Organization's new policies for MDR-TB in 2002?
(a) They go up and down continually.
(b) They rise.
(c) They decline.
(d) They remain the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason is given for the intensity of the Russian TB outbreak?

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

3. Who does Paul Farmer say that the women of Haiti caught HIV from?

4. What does the book say Paul Farmer earned a reputation for by the late 1990s?

5. What does Paul Farmer begin to do in the late 1990s, according to A Light Month for Travel?

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