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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Light Month for Travel, pages 179-238.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Partners in Health?
(a) Fitz Lafontant's Clinic in Haiti.
(b) Ophelia's hospital in Cange.
(c) Paul Farmer's fund raising organization.
(d) Tom White's Clinic in Boston.

2. Who is Alex Goldfarb?
(a) A Doctor with the World Health Organization.
(b) The schoolmaster in Cange.
(c) A Russian microbiologist.
(d) Tom White's representative.

3. Where does Paul Farmer first encounter Haitian people?
(a) From his grandmother.
(b) From his Aunt Lillian.
(c) On his first visit to Cange.
(d) Where he helps to pick citrus.

4. Where does the book stay that AIDS patients in Cuba were quarantined?
(a) At a hospital in Havana.
(b) Near Havana in a country side hacienda.
(c) At a clinic called Socios de Cuba.
(d) At a prison in Havana.

5. What type of doctors does Paul Farmer says he wants to work at his clinic in A Light Month for Travel?
(a) Women and minorities.
(b) People less driven than himself.
(c) People as driven as himself.
(d) Indigenous Haitians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By how much does the cost of TB drugs decrease by the year 2000?

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

4. Who is Didi Bertrand?

5. Where do Paul and Father Jack first meet?

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