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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?
(a) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(b) Columbia Medical Center.
(c) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(d) NYU Medical Center.

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

3. What human enzyme is AZT a dead ringer for?
(a) Thiamin.
(b) Nucleoside.
(c) Pentamidine.
(d) Thymidine.

4. 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) John O'Connor.
(c) Joseph Rafuse.
(d) Tim Sweeney.

5. What are the two sorts of T-cells?
(a) D13s and CR2s.
(b) CD4s and CD8s.
(c) R2s and D2s.
(d) C5s and C2Rs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the director of the U.S. Public Health Service that wrote, "With broadened parental understanding and more scientific research, hopefully, the chances that anyone's child will become victim of homosexuality will eventually decrease" (16)?

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

3. Where did Nathan Fain go to spend his last days before dying?

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

5. 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?

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