2. 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?

3. What is true about the drug for Tuberculosis, according to Paul Farmer?

4. What is wrong with the patient named Joe that Dr. Farmer learns about in 1999?

5. What organization, in addition to the World Health Organization, does Paul Farmer present his MDR TB findings to after meeting Senora Brigada?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Jim Yong Kim.

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

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

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

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

6. Why is Arata Kochi important in Mountains Beyond Mountains?

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

8. Is Socios en Salud successful?

9. Explain why Paul Farmer rides on the Lady Gin as a child.

10. Why is Rudolf Virchow important to Paul Farmer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

In Mountains Beyond Mountains, it is clear that irony is a naturally occurring phenomenon in real life. Identify three instances of irony from the book and answer these questions for each:

1) Is the ironic situation created by those effected by it or by outside forces?

2) Are the people involved aware of the irony of their situation?

3) Analyze the author's method used to disclose the irony to the readers.