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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. How is Paul involved with the TB projects in Peru and Russia in the late 1990s?

2. Whose pictures does Paul Farmer carry in his wallet?

3. What is Paul Farmer's desire, as stated in the O to the P section?

4. After "beefing up" what is true of the Lascahobas facility?

5. Who does Paul Farmer dispatch to start his 2002 expansion?

Short Essay Questions

1. Could Partners in Health have succeeded without Paul Farmer, Ophelia Dahl, or Jim Kim?

2. How are Paul Farmer and Jim Kim different in their approaches to medicine?

3. Describe Carol and Serena's ride to Port-au-Prince to look for a medevac and a helicopter.

4. Why is Zanmi Lasante so successful?

5. How does the death of John Wilnot affect Zanmi Lasante?

6. Describe Ti Fifi.

7. Why were competing organizations able to come together in Chapter 24 to work on curing TB?

8. What does Paul Farmer mean in Chapter 25 when he says that John's family died of Haiti?

9. Is Paul Farmer an American or a Haitian in his thoughts and actions?

10. Is Paul Farmer a good father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Explain how Tracy Kidder effectively uses contrast in Mountains Beyond Mountains in each of the following situations:

1) Setting

2) Economics

3) Bringing depth to people the book

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