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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul Farmer invent that is attributed to inspiration from his daughter?

2. What do Alex Goldfarb and Jim Yong Kim argue about at the 1998 Boston Conference?

3. How is Paul's knee shattered in 1988?

4. What action does Paul Farmer take after meeting and examining the patient named Joe in 1999?

5. How does Father Jack die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Is Socios en Salud successful?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using evidence from Mountains Beyond Mountains, answer the following question: Is Paul Farmer a realist or a dreamer?

Essay Topic 2

Did Serena Koenig make the right decision when she ordered the medevac unit to fly the patient John to Boston? What would you have done?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout both history and Mountains Beyond Mountains, religion has the power to change people's beliefs and actions. In this book, is religion a positive or a negative force? How does Paul Farmer use religion to achieve his goals? What are the most powerful positive and negative examples of religion in the book?

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