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

2. What organization controls the flow of antibiotics to Peru and other places in 2002?
(a) The Green Light Committee.
(b) Partners in Health.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) The Gates Foundation.

3. Where are the two characters in Mountains Beyond Mountains headed at the end of the story?
(a) To a medical conference in Russia.
(b) To France.
(c) On an eleven hour journey to visit patients.
(d) To an operating room in Zanmi Lasante.

4. Who does Paul Farmer borrow money from to pay for the 2002 expansion while waiting for the Global Fund money to arrive?
(a) Tom White.
(b) A commercial bank in Boston.
(c) Bill Gates.
(d) A commerical bank in Peru.

5. What religion does the book say that Paul Farmer struggled with?
(a) Voodoo.
(b) Ba'hai.
(c) Evangelical Christianity.
(d) Catholicism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Peggy McAvoy?

2. Where does the book stay that AIDS patients in Cuba were quarantined?

3. What happens to the prices of antiretroviral drugs in 2002?

4. What is defined as a benefit to the people, from the Haitian government in 2000?

5. Who manages the construction of a second operating room for Zanmi Lasante in 2002?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Paul Farmer an American or a Haitian in his thoughts and actions?

2. Describe Serena Koenig.

3. What does Paul Farmer mean in Chapter 25 when he says that John's family died of Haiti?

4. Why is Zanmi Lasante so successful?

5. Morally speaking, should all people attempt to follow Paul Farmer's example?

6. Describe Carol and Serena's ride to Port-au-Prince to look for a medevac and a helicopter.

7. How are Paul Farmer and Jim Kim different in their approaches to medicine?

8. How does the political climate in Haiti affect attempts to improve the health of its citizens?

9. Why are Paul Farmer and Alex Goldfarb successful in their attempts to make significant changes?

10. How does Father Jack's influence impact the MDR-TB campaign after his death?

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