2.) b

3.) b

4.) a

5.) c

6.) a

7.) b

8.) c

9.) b

10.) c

11.) a

12.) a

13.) b

14.) c

15.) c

 

ESSAY TOPICS - BOOK REPORT IDEAS

1. Describe the program that Paul sets up in Cange which he calls Zanmi Lasante.

2. Describe the belief system that Paul calls liberation theology. How is like a priest of this belief system.

3. Explain the relationship between Paul and Ophelia. How does it finally end up and why?

4. Discuss Paul's childhood with details of his relationship with his father. How does it mold him into the man he becomes?

5. After his father dies, Paul finds a letter the man had written to him. Why does it make him cry? How might this have helped him become the man he did?

6. What does Paul mean when he says, while standing on a hill in Haiti, in order to understand Cuba, Peru, and Russia, you have to stand on that hill in Haiti?

7. What is the significance of the sign hanging in the PIH headquarters in Boston which on the top says, To know Paul is to be golden, but underneath says, To know Paul is to be f*****?

8. How is Jim Kim just like Paul and yet very different?

9. Why do you think Kidder spent an entire chapter of his book telling the story of the young boy named John who is taken to Boston only to die?

10. Paul says he has spent his entire life working on the long defeat. What does he mean and how is this representative of the kind of man he is?

 

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