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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Tin Roofs of Cange, pages 45-122.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What award does Paul Farmer receive in the summer of 1993?
(a) The MacArthur Award.
(b) The Caldecott Award.
(c) The Nobel Peace Prize.
(d) The Turner Fellowship.

2. Who is Julianna DeWolf?
(a) Paul's first love.
(b) A reporter.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A nun.

3. What action does Paul Farmer take after meeting and examining the patient named Joe in 1999?
(a) Pays for his funeral.
(b) Arranges to speak to his congressman.
(c) Sends him home with his mother.
(d) Admits him to the hospital.

4. What symptoms of TB did the patient named Joe exhibit in 1999?
(a) Fatigue and chest pain.
(b) High fever and cough.
(c) Coughing up blood.
(d) Rapid weigh loss and cough.

5. Why doesn't Paul return to Haiti in September of 1991?
(a) His father is sick and dying.
(b) The government denies him access.
(c) His Boston based business is failing.
(d) His paralysis keeps him in Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Zanmi Lasante funded?

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

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

4. Why does the staff at Zanmi Lasante believe the cure rate for Tuberculosis is so low?

5. What does Paul Farmer give the patient Joe for Christmas?

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