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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 school does Paul Farmer get his medical degree from?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Berkley.
(c) Boston University.
(d) University of Texas.

2. What is DOTS?
(a) A fund raising organization based in Boston.
(b) A sister facilty to Partners in Health.
(c) Paul Farmer's recommended approach for curing TB.
(d) The traditional regimen for treating resistant TB.

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

4. What is true about the drug for Tuberculosis, according to Paul Farmer?
(a) They must be take at regular intervals.
(b) They tend to make children even more ill.
(c) It is easy to misdose the very young and the elderly.
(d) It is a very forgiving drug.

5. What are the names of Paul Farmer's parents?
(a) Sue and Peter.
(b) Delilah and Hugo.
(c) Georgia and Tom.
(d) Ginny and Paul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What award does Paul Farmer receive in the summer of 1993?

2. Who is Mamito married to?

3. Where was Paul Farmer raised?

4. What is Ophelia's nickname for Paul Farmer?

5. What disease does Paul contract on his first visit to Cange?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the WLs and AMC that Paul, Jim, and Ophelia discuss in Chapter Ten.

2. What is Paul Farmer's wedding like?

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

4. Explain why Paul Farmer and Ophelia fight over Diet Coke in Chapter Ten.

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

6. Describe the relative urban quiet used to describe the area in Boston where Brigham & Women's is located.

7. Is Socios en Salud successful?

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

9. Describe Jim Yong Kim.

10. Explain why Paul Farmer rides on the Lady Gin as a child.

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