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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the weekly newsletter TITA stand for?

2. What does CRI stand for?

3. What convenience store chain canceled health insurance for any of its 26,000 employees with AIDS unless it was contracted through a blood transfusion or errant spouse in 1988?

4. Who was Stephen Roach's lover who accompanied him to the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company that produced AL721 in 1987?

5. What does TAG stand for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Silence = Death Project?

2. Who is Mark Harrington?

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

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

5. How does the author describe his experience with Dr. Metroka in Part 4, Chapter 3?

6. What is CD8?

7. What do KS lesions refer to?

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

9. Why is The Making of the Atomic Bomb discussed in Part 4, Chapter 3?

10. What is zalcitabine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss Peter Staley's role in the AIDS movement. What was Staley's profession? What led him to abandon that profession? How did Staley benefit activist groups through his participation?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the AIDS Medical Foundation (amfAR). When and where was it established? By whom? What was its mission?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the career and work of Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien. What is Friedman-Kien's specialization? How did he first encounter patients who had what would be known as AIDS? What treatments did he attempt on these patients?

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