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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 happens to the prices of antiretroviral drugs in 2002?
2. What does Paul Farmer send to all financial contributors to Partners in Health?
3. Who does Paul Farmer borrow money from to pay for the 2002 expansion while waiting for the Global Fund money to arrive?
4. Where are the two characters in Mountains Beyond Mountains headed at the end of the story?
5. What is Paul Farmer's desire, as stated in the O to the P section?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the connection between the Open Society Institute and Partners in Health.
2. How does Father Jack's influence impact the MDR-TB campaign after his death?
3. What does Paul Farmer mean in Chapter 25 when he says that John's family died of Haiti?
4. Given his claim that if he stops moving someone will die, is Paul Farmer a megalomaniac?
5. How are Paul Farmer and Jim Kim different in their approaches to medicine?
6. Is Paul Farmer a good father?
7. Does Paul Farmer believe that life sucks, as noted in this second TB speech in Cuba?
8. Describe Serena Koenig.
9. Is it moral for the medevac company to charge for its services to bring John to Boston?
10. Why is Zanmi Lasante so successful?
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 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
Ophelia Dahl and Didi Bertrand are the two main women in Paul Farmer's romantic life. Compare and contrast these two women, the way they are addressed in the book, and the way their existence affects a reader's perception of Paul Farmer and his work.
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