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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paul Farmer do when he has a case that is too complicated or outside of his specialty?
(a) He flies patients to Peru for treatment.
(b) He flies Dr. Flickinger in from Boston.
(c) He flies patients to Boston for treatment.
(d) He flies Dr. Ramirez in from Peru.

2. What is defined as one of the problems of Haiti in 2000?
(a) Lack of a shared language.
(b) Lack of internal structure.
(c) Lack of a competent work force.
(d) Lack of products to export.

3. What do some prominent voices in the US Government continue to argue cannot be done in 2002?
(a) Treat AIDS in unstable governments.
(b) Treat MDR-TB in desperately impoverished places.
(c) Treat MDR-TB in unstable governments.
(d) Treat AIDS in desperately impoverished places.

4. What does Paul Farmer write to Tracy Kidder in regards to the blood bank in Cange?
(a) It is the result of a dream partnership.
(b) There will be no more weeping over blood.
(c) This is the type of bank that supports humanity.
(d) Lifeblood has finally arrived.

5. How did receiving the Gates endowment affect the fund-raising efforts by Partners in Health?
(a) They ceased fund-raising efforts to focus on publicity.
(b) They cut fundraising efforts in half.
(c) They hired an outside company to manage fundraising actitivities.
(d) They continued to pursue past and new contributors.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Paul Farmer tell Tracy Kidder that he can't slow down a pace he knows is much too fast?

3. How does Paul Farmer channel his anger, according to Tracy Kidder?

4. Who does the new director of the World Health Organization ask to serve as his senior advisor in 2003?

5. What is true of the Haitian government in 2000, according to Mountains beyond Mountains?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Paul Farmer believe that life sucks, as noted in this second TB speech in Cuba?

2. What figure in the book, other than Paul Farmer, has the greatest impact in curing MDR-TB?

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

4. What entity mentioned in the book has the greatest impact on the treatment of MDR-TB?

5. Does Jim Kim think that Paul Farmer is a good role model?

6. Describe the AIDS sanatorium in Cuba.

7. How do capitalists, commies, and Jesus Christers all assist Paul Farmer?

8. Why is Paul Farmer a supporter of President Aristede?

9. Describe Serena Koenig.

10. Why are Paul Farmer and Alex Goldfarb successful in their attempts to make significant changes?

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