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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes the communication between Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim after receiving the Gates endowment?
(a) They see each other monthly.
(b) They communicated daily but are rarely together.
(c) Their communication is strained, and they pass messages through Ophelia.
(d) They communicate by email but do not speak.

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

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

4. What is Paul Farmer's opinion on the role of the rich in poverty?
(a) Until the rich are forced to live like paupers, nothing will ever change.
(b) Rich people are obligated to care for the poor.
(c) While they can't be blamed, they must act now.
(d) The rich create it and encourage poverty by their lack of response.

5. 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) Hospital Nacional Hipólito Unanue
(c) Children's Hospital in Boston.
(d) Massachusetts General Hospital.

6. Who is Peggy McAvoy?
(a) The woman that Paul Farmer has an affair with.
(b) A doctor with Doctors without Borders.
(c) A doctor at Zanmi Lasante.
(d) Someone from the United Nations.

7. What religion does the book say that Paul Farmer struggled with?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Ba'hai.
(c) Voodoo.
(d) Evangelical Christianity.

8. Who is Jorge Perez?
(a) The Haitian President.
(b) A man who works with Jim Yong Kim in Peru.
(c) A Catholic Priest.
(d) A friend that helps with the cost of medication.

9. In the O to the P it is said that Paul Farmer was conscious of corporate etiquette but . . .
(a) He wasn't very good at playing that game.
(b) He despised corporate niceties.
(c) He wasn't paralyzed by it.
(d) He didn't care about it.

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

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

12. What is one symptom of Haiti's problems in 2000?
(a) The debt load of the goverment.
(b) The growing dysentry epidemic.
(c) The turmoil among the working class.
(d) The closing of health clinics.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of doctors does Paul Farmer says he wants to work at his clinic in A Light Month for Travel?

2. What reason is given for the intensity of the Russian TB outbreak?

3. Who is Serena Koenig?

4. According to the author, what would Paul Farmer have thought of Jim Young Kim's action at the banquet in Russia?

5. 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?

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