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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does Paul Farmer dispatch to start his 2002 expansion?
(a) Peruvian and Americans doctors and technicians.
(b) Haitian and American doctors and technicians.
(c) Russian and American doctors and technicians.
(d) French and American doctors and technicians.

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

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

6. What does Paul Farmer send to all financial contributors to Partners in Health?
(a) Calendars marked with dates for the next contribution..
(b) Handwritten notes of thanks.
(c) Thank you notes from the school children.
(d) Pictures of children they have helped.

7. Who announces plans to establish a transfusion post at Zanmi Lasante in the Afterword of Mountains Beyond Mountains?
(a) The Gates Foundation.
(b) The Green Light Committee.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) Doctors without Borders.

8. How does Serena Koenig describe the Lascahobas situation?
(a) A nightmare.
(b) A dream come true.
(c) Disaster waiting to happen.
(d) A pocket of organization amidst chaos.

9. 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.

10. How did receiving the Gates endowment affect the fund-raising efforts by Partners in Health?
(a) They continued to pursue past and new contributors.
(b) They cut fundraising efforts in half.
(c) They ceased fund-raising efforts to focus on publicity.
(d) They hired an outside company to manage fundraising actitivities.

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

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

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

14. Where does the book stay that AIDS patients in Cuba were quarantined?
(a) Near Havana in a country side hacienda.
(b) At a hospital in Havana.
(c) At a prison in Havana.
(d) At a clinic called Socios de Cuba.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Afterword, how many HIV patients does Zanmi Lasante's staff care for?

2. Where are the two characters in Mountains Beyond Mountains headed at the end of the story?

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

4. It's stated, in the O to the P, that some people thought that Paul Farmer was . . .

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?

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