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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Paul Farmer plan to start his expansion in 2002?
(a) The inner city.
(b) The northern city limit.
(c) The southern provinces.
(d) The central plateau.

4. What happens to the prices of antiretroviral drugs in 2002?
(a) They remain the same.
(b) They go up and down continually.
(c) They decline.
(d) They rise.

5. What does the book say Paul Farmer earned a reputation for by the late 1990s?
(a) A relentless lobbyist for the poor.
(b) A specialist in the field of TB.
(c) His fundraising-by-guilt tactics.
(d) His unorthodox epidemiological views.

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

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

8. What is Lascahobas?
(a) A settlement north of Cange.
(b) A prison outside of Lima.
(c) A settlement north of Lima.
(d) A prison outside of Cange.

9. What organization controls the flow of antibiotics to Peru and other places in 2002?
(a) The Gates Foundation.
(b) Partners in Health.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The Green Light Committee.

10. Who is the project director of the Russian TB project?
(a) Alex Goldfarb.
(b) Fritz LaFontain.
(c) Mikail Frank.
(d) Ophelia.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who elected president of Haiti in 2000?

2. Who does the new director of the World Health Organization ask to serve as his senior advisor in 2003?

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

4. How did receiving the Gates endowment affect the fund-raising efforts by Partners in Health?

5. Who does Paul Farmer dispatch to start his 2002 expansion?

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