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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 ASFV stand for?
(a) African swine fever virus.
(b) AIDS safety forum for violence.
(c) AIDS San Francisco virus.
(d) AIDS socialites for virology.

2. What disease was suramin being prescribed to treat in Africa when it was first put on trial in AIDS research?
(a) Syphilis.
(b) River blindness.
(c) Emphysema.
(d) Gonorrhea.

3. As a conservative estimate, how many sexual partners had Michael Callen had when he was diagnosed?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 3,000.
(c) 500.
(d) 2,000.

4. In what year is the memorial described in the Prologue?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2013.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Lawrence Mass's lover who took him to the psychiatric ward at St. Vincents when Mass became suicidal?

2. How much had the mayor of New York City spend in the first 30 months of plague, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 2?

3. What is the North Carolina-based drugmaker that expressed interest in investing research into AIDS when confronted by Broder?

4. From where did 125,000 Cuban refugees flee by raft and boat to Miami in 1980?

5. What psychoanalyst described "oral regression" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Richard Berkowitz and what led him to activism?

2. What was Jane Teas the first to discover in AIDS research?

3. Who is Anita Bryant and in what context is she discussed in Part 1, Chapter 1?

4. What book led Ortleb to believe the government was intentionally causing AIDS deaths? What was the subject of this book?

5. What does ACT UP refer to? When, where, and by whom was it established?

6. What comparisons does the author make regarding AIDS research and funding in New York City versus San Francisco in early 1984?

7. How many people still die of AIDS every year around the globe (as of the book's publication in 2016)? Why?

8. Who is Samuel Broder and what was his position from 1989 to 1995?

9. What were the Stonewall riots and when did they occur?

10. What is HTLV-3 and who discovered it?

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