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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. Where did Nathan Fain go to spend his last days before dying?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Texas.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Louisiana.

2. Who suggested shutting down Wall Street as a means of protest at the meeting for advocacy and protests described in Part 3, Chapter 1?
(a) Howard Moody.
(b) John Douglas Crane.
(c) Vivian Shapiro.
(d) Scott Bernard.

3. While under Callen's leadership, the PWA Health Group had sold how much money's worth in underground treatments, according to the author in Part 4, Chapter 1?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $1 million.
(c) $4 million.
(d) $3 million.

4. What term refers to an extreme or irrational fear of heights?
(a) Heliophobia.
(b) Leukopenia.
(c) Agoraphobia.
(d) Acrophobia.

5. Who was the AIDS adviser for Congressman Henry Waxman?
(a) Dr. Tony Fauci.
(b) John Hale.
(c) Tim Sweeney.
(d) Tim Westmoreland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does TAG stand for?

2. Above what park did Larry Kramer have a one-bedroom apartment in 1987, according to the author in Part 3, Chapter 1?

3. What is the drug Zorivax used to treat?

4. Where was the biotech firm Imreg headquartered in 1988?

5. What experimental compound did Mark Harrington learn researchers were testing in combination with AZT at the Primary Infection Committee meeting described in Part 4, Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened with the Merck trial that Bill Bahlman participated in, as described in Part 4, Chapter 3?

2. When and where was The Normal Heart produced? What is it about?

3. What did the fall of the Berlin Wall signify for AIDS activists?

4. What is CD4?

5. How does the author describe the emotional toll of the AIDS epidemic in the Epilogue?

6. What is CD8?

7. What changed the front of the AIDS epidemice in 1996?

8. What led to Peter Staley's unemployment and eventual commitment to the cause for AIDS awareness?

9. What do KS lesions refer to?

10. What was the Silence = Death Project?

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