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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 does Fritz Lafontant give Paul Farmer permission to do in Cange?
(a) Build a school.
(b) Test residents for TB.
(c) Collect blood samples for research.
(d) Conduct a census.

2. What is the name of the hospital where Paul Farmer works four months out of the year?
(a) Brigham and Women's.
(b) Boston Children's Hospital.
(c) Mass General.
(d) U Mass.

3. What happens to the Peru branch of Partners in Health as a result of the civil war?
(a) The pharmacy is bombed.
(b) The entire facility is set on fire.
(c) The facility is moved into a local church.
(d) Construction is halted.

4. Who discovers that many patents on TB drugs are expired and argues for the creation of generic versions?
(a) Jim Yong Kim.
(b) Ophelia.
(c) Arata Kochi.
(d) Paul Farmer.

5. What is the Artibonte?
(a) A clinic.
(b) A dam.
(c) A Haitian dialect.
(d) A river.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mamito married to?

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

3. What is true of Paul Farmer when he and Tracy Kidder meet again in 1999?

4. What is the junta suspected of doing in Mirebalais in the first section of the story labeled Dokte Paul?

5. Who is Didi Bertrand?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How do the staff and patients at Brigham & Women's react to Paul Farmer when Tracy Kidder visits in Chapter Two?

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

8. Why is Rudolf Virchow important to Paul Farmer?

9. How do epidemiological maps give insight into the TB epidemic in Haiti?

10. Why does Paul Farmer ask the Boston Globe to publish A Death in Haiti under a pen name in Chapter Eleven?

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