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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is true of the cure for Tuberculosis in Haiti at the beginning of the Medicos Aventureros section?
(a) It's not available anywhere in the country.
(b) The government has intercepted the shipment.
(c) It is not the correct type of drug for this strain of illness.
(d) It's only available in city hospitals.

2. Why are there soldiers in Haiti in 1994?
(a) To maintain a military presence in a peaceful time.
(b) To bring aid and food supplies.
(c) To keep peace before the new election.
(d) To support the new government from an ousted regime.

3. What is wrong with the patient named Joe that Dr. Farmer learns about in 1999?
(a) He is HIV posititve and an addict.
(b) His lungs are not fully formed.
(c) He is a diabetic.
(d) He has digestive problems.

4. What is true of Paul Farmer when he and Tracy Kidder meet again in 1999?
(a) He has recevied the Nobel Peace Prize.
(b) He is an alcoholic.
(c) He is divorced.
(d) He is an infectious disease specialist.

5. What do Alex Goldfarb and Jim Yong Kim argue about at the 1998 Boston Conference?
(a) Efficiency of generic MDR TB medications.
(b) Cost effectiveness of treating MDR TB.
(c) Who should receive available doses of the MDR TB medicine.
(d) Best fundraising methods for Partners in Health.

Short Answer Questions

1. What other diseases are the patients that Paul Farmer sees in Haiti very likely to have in conjunction with Tuberculosis, according to comments in Medicos Aventureros?

2. Where does Paul work when he first goes to Haiti?

3. Why did the people that Paul Farmer work with in Haiti lose their farms?

4. Who secured the future of Partners in Health by securing the $45 million endowment?

5. Where do Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim get many of the drugs for their facility in Peru?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the Section heading, The Tin Roofs of Cange?

2. Why does Paul Farmer give Joe a 6 pack of beer in Chapter Two?

3. Why is Rudolf Virchow important to Paul Farmer?

4. Is Paul Farmer a person of faith, as of Chapter 9?

5. Describe Zanmi Lasante as first seen by Tracy Kidder in Chapter Three.

6. What is the impetus for the creation of Socios en Salud?

7. Why is Arata Kochi important in Mountains Beyond Mountains?

8. Describe the irony surrounding Father Jack's death.

9. What is the importance of the O for the P?

10. Describe Paul Farmer's appearance in the first chapter of Mountains Beyond Mountains.

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