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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the New York health commissioner whose office was taken over by protesters who demanded his resignation?
(a) Joseph Rafuse.
(b) Dr. David Sencer.
(c) Jim Eigo.
(d) Stephen Joseph.

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

3. Who was Lawrence Mass's lover who took him to the psychiatric ward at St. Vincents when Mass became suicidal?
(a) George de Stefano.
(b) Arnie Kantrowitz.
(c) Richard Failla.
(d) Sandor Ferenczi.

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

5. What do OIs refer to?
(a) Outside infiections.
(b) Obsolete infections.
(c) Ordinary infections.
(d) Opportunistic infections.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did GMHC net from a fundraiser disco party at the Paradise Garage, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 3?

2. How many cases of the gay cancer were on the CDC list by July of 1982?

3. What percentage of AIDS cases were in the New York metropolitan area in February of 1983?

4. Who was nominated as the leader of the newly formed GMHC?

5. Who was the chairman of the GMHC's medical board that referred to "the Elizabeth Taylor model of behavior--serial monogamy" (53)?

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