MBM Part IV

What was the author’s purpose to use “A Light Month of Travel” as the title of the chapter, when the traveling was actually exhausting?

• To create a contrast between the strength of the characters between the author and Farmer, which Farmer was able to see the traveling as relaxation and his duty to serve patients.

• To be sarcastic about Farmer’s stubborn action of saving every patient of the world.

• To compare the speed of their traveling with the speed of light.

• To symbolize the weight of their travels.

When the two was at the airport, Farmer told the author that they were about to see something horrible, where did the “disaster” take place?

• On the plane

• In the bathroom

• In the shuttle bus

• At the escalator

Why did Farmer want to create more local doctors for Cange?

• They may comprehend the superstition in Cange more in order to understand their patients.

• They are more adapted to this brutal circumstance so they will do better jobs than the WLs.

• They understand the culture better than anyone else, so they may build connections with their patients easier.

• Farmer did not want to work in Cange anymore.

What was Farmer’s feeling towards Russia?

• It wasn’t as important as Haiti

• It would require lots of efforts

• It would be the first step of Farmer reform the global medical system

• It was to pay off a favor from one of Farmer’s friend in Russia

In the beginning of part 4, Paul farmer turned to a tenured professor at Harvard, receiving 75 emails a day but still replying all of them immediately. Which of the following is NOT true about the Farmer, especially knowing the above?

• His devoting spirit into his work and give up free time

• His tracking of every student's test scores

• The love he delivered to the ones in need

• His wisdom by viewing the fact he is a tenured professor

How did Farmer feel about the prisoner’s position in all human kind？

• They should receive proper and equal health care than the normal people

• prisoners are seen as second-class citizens

• Prisoners are the ones who “deserve” any suffering they experience

• people are sent to prison to be punished, but come out “infected” with crime and fear.

Why did Farmer dress formally at the World Bank conference?

• To show his pragmatic political engagement

• Because he comprehend these as the confidence and power

• To show his respect to the culture

• He must be in the formal dress code in order to enter the WB conference

The expression of “Looking for life, destroying life.” that Haitians use is usually under the situation like:

• When a poor woman selling mangoes falls off a truck and dies.

• When a rich woman selling mangoes falls off a truck and dies.

• When a poor woman selling mangoes falls off a truck and hurts herself.

• When a rich woman planting mango trees then falls off a truck and dies.

“Poke fun at someone who was too pretentious or willfully ignorant.”

Which of the below is the closest synonym to the word “Pretentious”?

• Fraudulent

• Grandiose

• Counterfeit

• Fake

Why was Farmer trying to solve Russian's TB problem right away?

• He was touched by Goldfarb's persistence in trying to solve TB.

• He doesn't want to ignore the Russian prisoners out of humanitarian reasons.

• He doesn't want to ignore the Russian prisoners out of humanitarian reasons.

• He thinks that the exigent problem should be solved first.