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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the top reason mentioned that Paul Farmer has an interest in AIDS?
(a) AIDS encourages the spread of TB.
(b) His brother died of AIDS.
(c) He believes a cure is close to being found.
(d) It results from social inequality.

3. Where does the US military detain infected Haitians in an effort to stop the spread of AIDS?
(a) The Artibonte Hospital.
(b) Zanmi Lasante.
(c) The prison in Port-au-Prince.
(d) Guantanamo.

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

5. How is Zanmi Lasante described in O to the P?
(a) Struggling to pay its bills.
(b) A nuetral zone amidst the strife.
(c) Tormented and bullied by the government.
(d) Exceptional in its care.

6. What is defined as a benefit to the people, from the Haitian government in 2000?
(a) The people have more health clinics.
(b) The country has a new source of income.
(c) The country has a strong internal structure.
(d) The people are free of terror.

7. How does Paul Farmer feel about his rotations at Brigham and Women's Hospital?
(a) They are a necessary evil.
(b) They are useful to help him refuel.
(c) They are a waste of time that could be spent in Haiti.
(d) They are intellectually stimulating.

8. 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 runs both projects.
(d) He is a fundraiser only.

9. 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 embarrassed.
(c) He would have done the same thing.
(d) He would have been angry.

10. For what purpose is Partners in Health awarded $45 million by the Gates Foundation?
(a) To erase social inequalities.
(b) To reduce incidences of MDR TB in Haiti by 70% in 5 years.
(c) To eradicate MDR TB.
(d) To educate the public, raise funds and treat MDR TB.

11. What does Jim Yong Kim say will define the moral standing of his generation?
(a) The world's ability to share its resources.
(b) The world's response to poverty.
(c) This generation's ability to inspire its youth.
(d) The world's response to AIDS and TB.

12. What expansion does Paul Farmer begin in the summer of 2002?
(a) Socios en Salud.
(b) Zanmi Lasante.
(c) Tomsk Oblast Tuberculosis Hospital.
(d) Gates and Parters TB Clinic.

13. What do some prominent voices in the US Government continue to argue cannot be done in 2002?
(a) Treat MDR-TB in unstable governments.
(b) Treat AIDS in desperately impoverished places.
(c) Treat AIDS in unstable governments.
(d) Treat MDR-TB in desperately impoverished places.

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

15. After "beefing up" what is true of the Lascahobas facility?
(a) It costs $1,000 per day to maintain.
(b) It treats 200-300 patients a day.
(c) It is used as an education facility for local residents.
(d) It holds 200-300 prisoners.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Serena Koenig describe the Lascahobas situation?

2. What is one symptom of Haiti's problems in 2000?

3. Who is the project director of the Russian TB project?

4. What does Paul Farmer do when he has a case that is too complicated or outside of his specialty?

5. What is the name of the second lecture that Paul Farmer gives in Cuba?

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