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

2. Why is Paul Farmer frustrated when he first meets Tracy Kidder?

3. How do Paul Farmer's colleagues consider his actions during Haiti's troubles in the early 1990s?

4. Who provides the funding to bring Partners in Health to Peru?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Rudolf Virchow important to Paul Farmer?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Jim Yong Kim.

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

Compare and contrast Didi Bertrand, Father Jack, and Ophelia within the context of wealth and poverty.

Essay Topic 3

Select three people from Mountains Beyond Mountains that are victims of injustice. For each one describe the injustice, what the root causes are, if it is resolved, and if so by whom. Compare these people and their situations based on these criteria.

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