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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the new director of the World Health Organization ask to serve as his senior advisor in 2003?
(a) Alex Goldfarb.
(b) Ophelia Dahl.
(c) Paul Farmer.
(d) Jim Yong Kim.

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

3. Why does Paul Farmer travel light when he flies?
(a) To bring needed items and gifts.
(b) He keeps all the clothes he needs in both Boston and Cange.
(c) To avoid stress to his shoulder.
(d) To avoid waiting for luggage.

4. What operations are performed in Cange by teams from Brigham and South Carolina in 2002?
(a) Colon resections.
(b) Open-heart surgeries.
(c) Liver transplants.
(d) Kidney transplants.

5. Where does the author say that Jim was happy to work in the O for the P section?
(a) Away from the action.
(b) In a goldfish bowl.
(c) In Russia.
(d) Anywhere.

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

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

8. 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 angry.
(b) He would have been embarrassed.
(c) He would have done the same thing.
(d) He would have been proud.

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

10. Who does Paul Farmer say that the women of Haiti caught HIV from?
(a) Their husbands.
(b) Politicians and poachers.
(c) Soldiers and truck drivers.
(d) Foreigners.

11. What type of doctors does Paul Farmer says he wants to work at his clinic in A Light Month for Travel?
(a) People less driven than himself.
(b) People as driven as himself.
(c) Indigenous Haitians.
(d) Women and minorities.

12. In the O for the P section, what is it said that Paul Farmer was able to defy?
(a) Pressure.
(b) Religious dictates.
(c) Laws of the body.
(d) The local authorities.

13. What additional treatment does Paul Farmer want to bring to Haiti in A Light Month for Travel?
(a) Dialysis.
(b) Chemotherapy.
(c) AIDS treatment.
(d) Blood transfusions.

14. Who gives the Russian Ministry of Health a $150 million dollar loan to fight the tuberculosis epidemic in 2002?
(a) The World Bank.
(b) The Bank of Boston.
(c) The Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
(d) Tom White.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is true of Paul and Jim in the beginning of the A Light Month for Travel section?

3. What resulted from the case of John that is told in the O for the P?

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

5. What are PIHers?

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