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

2. What is the cost when Paul Farmer seeks treatment for cases that are too complicated or outside of his specialty?
(a) The cost of tests and equipment only.
(b) $50,000 per visit.
(c) Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
(d) Free of charge.

3. 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 runs both projects.
(c) He is a fundraiser only.
(d) He is an advisor.

4. How does Paul Farmer feel about his rotations at Brigham and Women's Hospital?
(a) They are a waste of time that could be spent in Haiti.
(b) They are useful to help him refuel.
(c) They are intellectually stimulating.
(d) They are a necessary evil.

5. What is the name of the second lecture that Paul Farmer gives in Cuba?
(a) Why Life Sucks.
(b) Wealth, Poverty, and Tuberculosis: Unholy Trinity.
(c) Accepting AIDS.
(d) Mission: Life.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what entity does the Russian branch of PIH negotiate a loan?

2. What happens to the prices of antiretroviral drugs in 2002?

3. Who does Paul Farmer say the only men on Haiti who experience economic stability are?

4. What three things does Paul Farmer say are co-infectious in his second lecture in Cuba?

5. How much money does Paul Farmer borrow to pay for the 2002 expansion while waiting for the Global Fund money to arrive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Ophelia's opinion of Paul's personality?

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

3. Why is Zanmi Lasante so successful?

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

5. Is it moral for the medevac company to charge for its services to bring John to Boston?

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

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

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

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

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

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