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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Paul Farmer tell Tracy Kidder that he can't slow down a pace he knows is much too fast?
(a) He's afraid Catherine will be disappointed in him.
(b) He can't seem to locate the brake.
(c) He's afraid someone will die needlessly.
(d) He's chasing a moving goal.

2. What do Paul and the Partners in Health staff say they knew about their goal after receiving the Gates endowment?
(a) That they can focus on the goal now that the financial stress is gone.
(b) That it will be a challenge to meet this goal, despite large amounts of money.
(c) That they will reach their goal well before its deadline.
(d) That it will take all the funds to meet the goal.

3. According to the book, what is true of the individual Haitians that were detained by the US military?
(a) Over half of the surviving patients volunteered at Zanmi Lasante.
(b) Sister Juliana DeWolf set up a school and clinic to serve them.
(c) They were fed poorly, forced into long lasting contraceptive use, and beaten.
(d) They were treated well and Paul was allowed to treat them regularly.

4. What is Paul Farmer's desire, as stated in the O to the P section?
(a) To cure the world.
(b) The cure Haiti.
(c) To inspire the world to heal.
(d) To create a small example for the world.

5. Who announces plans to establish a transfusion post at Zanmi Lasante in the Afterword of Mountains Beyond Mountains?
(a) The Gates Foundation.
(b) The Green Light Committee.
(c) Doctors without Borders.
(d) The Red Cross.

6. What are the twin pandemics referred to in the Afterword of Mountains Beyond Mountains?
(a) AIDS and tuberculosis.
(b) AIDS and HIV.
(c) Tuberculosis and MDR-TB.
(d) Tueberculosis and dysentry.

7. Whose pictures does Paul Farmer carry in his wallet?
(a) Patients he has cured.
(b) Patients who have died.
(c) Catherine's and Didi's.
(d) Catherine's and his patients.

8. What is the cost when Paul Farmer seeks treatment for cases that are too complicated or outside of his specialty?
(a) Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
(b) Free of charge.
(c) The cost of tests and equipment only.
(d) $50,000 per visit.

9. What does Paul Farmer do when he has a case that is too complicated or outside of his specialty?
(a) He flies patients to Peru for treatment.
(b) He flies Dr. Flickinger in from Boston.
(c) He flies patients to Boston for treatment.
(d) He flies Dr. Ramirez in from Peru.

10. What is true of Paul and Jim in the beginning of the A Light Month for Travel section?
(a) They have to much to do and too little time.
(b) The have less financial pressure and too much time on their hands.
(c) Both have contracted illnesses.
(d) Both suffer deaths in their families.

11. What result does the petition for electricity made by citizens of Cange have?
(a) They receive power for a few hours a day.
(b) Their petition is ignored.
(c) Zanmi Lasante is bombed by the military.
(d) Their petition is denied.

12. What does Paul Farmer begin to do in the late 1990s, according to A Light Month for Travel?
(a) Speak and teach.
(b) Train a successor.
(c) Spend more time with his family.
(d) Visit Washington, DC monthly.

13. 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) Jim Yong Kim.
(b) Pere Lafountain.
(c) Ophelia.
(d) Paul Farmer.

14. Doctors from what hospital donate services to help with cases that Paul Farmer sends them that are outside out the Partners in Health budget?
(a) Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza
(b) Massachusetts General Hospital.
(c) Hospital Nacional Hipólito Unanue
(d) Children's Hospital in Boston.

15. According to the author, what would Paul Farmer have thought of Jim Young Kim's action at the banquet in Russia?
(a) He would have been proud.
(b) He would have been angry.
(c) He would have been embarrassed.
(d) He would have done the same thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Paul involved with the TB projects in Peru and Russia in the late 1990s?

2. What is the top reason mentioned that Paul Farmer has an interest in AIDS?

3. Who manages the construction of a second operating room for Zanmi Lasante in 2002?

4. Who guarantees Paul Farmer's 2002 expansion loan?

5. Where does the book stay that AIDS patients in Cuba were quarantined?

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