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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion does the book say that Paul Farmer struggled with?
(a) Catholicism.
(b) Ba'hai.
(c) Voodoo.
(d) Evangelical Christianity.

2. How does Paul Farmer refer to poverty in A Light Month for Travel?
(a) A curse.
(b) An inherited disease.
(c) As this century's Black Plague.
(d) As a social condition.

3. Who does the new director of the World Health Organization ask to serve as his senior advisor in 2003?
(a) Paul Farmer.
(b) Alex Goldfarb.
(c) Jim Yong Kim.
(d) Ophelia Dahl.

4. For what purpose is Partners in Health awarded $45 million by the Gates Foundation?
(a) To educate the public, raise funds and treat MDR TB.
(b) To erase social inequalities.
(c) To reduce incidences of MDR TB in Haiti by 70% in 5 years.
(d) To eradicate MDR TB.

5. Who announces plans to establish a transfusion post at Zanmi Lasante in the Afterword of Mountains Beyond Mountains?
(a) The Red Cross.
(b) The Gates Foundation.
(c) Doctors without Borders.
(d) The Green Light Committee.

6. Who is the project director of the Russian TB project?
(a) Fritz LaFontain.
(b) Ophelia.
(c) Mikail Frank.
(d) Alex Goldfarb.

7. What two characters are present at the end of Mountains Beyond Mountains?
(a) Paul Farmer and a young patient.
(b) The author and Paul Farmer.
(c) Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer.
(d) Paul Famer and Catherine.

8. What reason is given for the intensity of the Russian TB outbreak?
(a) Backlogged prison systems.
(b) Lack of running water.
(c) Lack of electricity in rural areas.
(d) Dilapadated housing.

9. What belief does the author say Paul Farmer instills in people?
(a) A belief that we are all connected.
(b) A belief that money corrupts.
(c) A united belief that something better is possible.
(d) A belief in their obligation and ability.

10. Doctors from what hospital donate services to help with cases that Paul Farmer sends them that are outside out the Partners in Health budget?
(a) Hospital Nacional Arzobispo Loayza
(b) Hospital Nacional Hipólito Unanue
(c) Massachusetts General Hospital.
(d) Children's Hospital in Boston.

11. How did the two AIDS quarantines mentioned in the book affect the spread of this disease?
(a) Neither one stopped the spread of the disease.
(b) Only the facility in Cuba showed success in stopping the spread of AIDS.
(c) Only the facility in Haiti showed success in stopping the spread of AIDS.
(d) Both show about 50% success rates in stopping the spread of AIDS.

12. How is Paul involved with the TB projects in Peru and Russia in the late 1990s?
(a) He is not; both are independent of Partners in Health.
(b) He is an advisor.
(c) He is a fundraiser only.
(d) He runs both projects.

13. What is defined as a benefit to the people, from the Haitian government in 2000?
(a) The country has a strong internal structure.
(b) The country has a new source of income.
(c) The people have more health clinics.
(d) The people are free of terror.

14. What is Paul Farmer's desire, as stated in the O to the P section?
(a) The cure Haiti.
(b) To create a small example for the world.
(c) To cure the world.
(d) To inspire the world to heal.

15. Who gives the Russian Ministry of Health a $150 million dollar loan to fight the tuberculosis epidemic in 2002?
(a) Tom White.
(b) The World Bank.
(c) The Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
(d) The Bank of Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what year do mathematical models predict HIV infections will reach 100 million?

2. What does the book say Paul Farmer earned a reputation for by the late 1990s?

3. What do Paul and the Partners in Health staff say they knew about their goal after receiving the Gates endowment?

4. What additional treatment does Paul Farmer want to bring to Haiti in A Light Month for Travel?

5. What is the cost when Paul Farmer seeks treatment for cases that are too complicated or outside of his specialty?

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