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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many chronic patients are either cured or in treatment due to the second line antibiotics that are made available to Peru and other locations in 2002?
(a) 875.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 0.
(d) 1,000.

2. 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 someone will die needlessly.
(b) He's afraid Catherine will be disappointed in him.
(c) He's chasing a moving goal.
(d) He can't seem to locate the brake.

3. Who guarantees Paul Farmer's 2002 expansion loan?
(a) Ophelia's father.
(b) Bill Gates.
(c) Tom White.
(d) Melinda Gates.

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

5. 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 a competent work force.
(d) Lack of internal structure.

6. With what entity does the Russian branch of PIH negotiate a loan?
(a) The World Health Organization.
(b) The World Bank.
(c) The Bank of Boston.
(d) The Gates Foundation.

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

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

9. What countries does Paul Farmer approach for assistance with the doctors and money he needs in A Light Month for Travel?
(a) Cuba and Peru.
(b) The United States and Peru.
(c) France and the United States.
(d) Cuba and France.

10. What does Paul Farmer write to Tracy Kidder in regards to the blood bank in Cange?
(a) This is the type of bank that supports humanity.
(b) It is the result of a dream partnership.
(c) Lifeblood has finally arrived.
(d) There will be no more weeping over blood.

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

12. Where are the two characters in Mountains Beyond Mountains headed at the end of the story?
(a) To an operating room in Zanmi Lasante.
(b) On an eleven hour journey to visit patients.
(c) To France.
(d) To a medical conference in Russia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Doctors from what hospital donate services to help with cases that Paul Farmer sends them that are outside out the Partners in Health budget?

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

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

4. Why does Paul Farmer travel light when he flies?

5. What do some prominent voices in the US Government continue to argue cannot be done in 2002?

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