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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the discoverer of interferon that Dr. Joe Sonnabend studied with?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) Alick Isaacs.
(c) Lawrence K. Altman.
(d) Edmund Bergler.

2. How much money did the lawyers for the 49 West 12 Tenants Corporation offer Sonnabend as restitution, plus legal costs?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $50,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $24,000.

3. Who was the head of the NIAID in July of 1985?
(a) Dr. Tony Fauci.
(b) Dr. James Mason.
(c) Dr. David Sencer.
(d) Dr. Tom Steele.

4. What are the raw materials called that cancer cells use to make new DNA necessary for rapid cell divisions?
(a) Thymidine.
(b) Pentamidines.
(c) Nucleosides.
(d) Bactrims.

5. Who was the first of Dr. Yarchoan's patients to be treated with AZT in clinical trial in July of 1985?
(a) John Hale.
(b) Joseph Rafuse.
(c) John O'Connor.
(d) Tim Sweeney.

6. Of what New York City mayor did Kramer write, "With his silence on AIDS, the Mayor of New York is helping to kill us" (82)?
(a) John Lindsay.
(b) Ed Koch.
(c) Michael Bloomberg.
(d) Rudy Giuliani.

7. The two-step procedure for blood testing for HTLV-3/LAV used a method called ELISA and another called what?
(a) Set values.
(b) Western Blot.
(c) Level One.
(d) Red Green.

8. How much money did Rosen receive for the AIDS Institute on February 27, 1985 from Albany for education money?
(a) $150,000.
(b) $40,000.
(c) $400,000.
(d) $95,000.

9. When was suramin first pushed into human trials for AIDS?
(a) July 30, 1986.
(b) August 6, 1984.
(c) March 23, 1968.
(d) June 2, 1985.

10. What was the name of Anita Bryant's anti-gay religious coalition?
(a) Save Our Children.
(b) The AIDS Institute.
(c) ACT UP.
(d) GMHC.

11. What does GMHC stand for?
(a) Gay men's health crisis.
(b) Gay men's healing center.
(c) Gay men's honor code.
(d) Gay men's health community.

12. What percentage of AIDS cases were in the New York metropolitan area in February of 1983?
(a) 47.3%.
(b) 34.5%.
(c) 23.5%.
(d) 63.1%.

13. What does GRID stand for?
(a) Gay retroviral immune deficiency.
(b) Gay-related internal destruction.
(c) Gamma-ray intensity diagonistics.
(d) Gay-related immune deficiency.

14. Where did Richard Berkowitz earn a journalism degree?
(a) New York University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Berkeley University.

15. From where does the author say he was on a college sojourn when he visited New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Washington.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Ohio.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What code name was AZT given when taken to trial for AIDS?

2. What is the title of the thinly veiled roman a clef that Larry Kramer published in 1978?

3. How old did Bobbi Campbell turn in January of 1985?

4. What was the author doing an internship for when he first visited New York City?

5. As a conservative estimate, how many sexual partners had Michael Callen had when he was diagnosed?

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