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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 is the name of the hospital where Paul Farmer works four months out of the year?

2. Where does Paul Farmer invite Tracy Kidder just before New Year's Day 2000?

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

4. Who is Alex Goldfarb?

5. What is the Artibonte?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Rudolf Virchow important to Paul Farmer?

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

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

4. Explain how the author observes Paul Farmer beginning each day in Chapter Three.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is Paul Farmer's goal to love all children as much as he loves his own daughter an admirable one? Explain your answer with support from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Compare the three venues below and explain how each is symbolic in Mountains Beyond Mountains:

1) The AIDS hacienda in Cuba

2) Harvard Medical School

3) Zanmi Lasante

Essay Topic 3

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?

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