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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 job did Paul hold while living in France?
(a) Mail Clerk.
(b) Waiter.
(c) Au Pair.
(d) Tour Guide.

2. How does Paul Farmer say he was allowed to return to Haiti after being exiled by the junta?
(a) He carries a false passport.
(b) The new regime invited him to return.
(c) A bribe.
(d) Blackmail.

3. What does "ID" refer to when Paul Farmer refers to his patients in 1999?
(a) Infant deaths.
(b) Infectious disease.
(c) Inferior diabetes.
(d) Irrigational diverticulitous.

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

5. 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?
(a) Dysentry and Malaria.
(b) Scarlett Fever and Sepsis.
(c) HIV and AIDS.
(d) Typhoid and Rheumatism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the South Carolina church invest in for the people of Cange?

3. What does Paul Farmer give the patient Joe for Christmas?

4. What is Tracy Kidder's job in 1994?

5. Why is Paul Farmer frustrated when he first meets Tracy Kidder?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the importance of the Peligre Dam to the people of Haiti.

2. Is Socios en Salud successful?

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

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

5. Why is Rudolf Virchow important to Paul Farmer?

6. Why is Alexander Goldfarb reluctant to implement DOTS in Russia, in Chapter 18?

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

8. Why is the method of travel and the land around Zanmi Lasante important?

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

10. Describe the political climate of Haiti at the beginning of the book in 1994.

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