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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 pharmaceutical company did Dr. Sonnabend hammer away at for a supply of AL721 in 1987?
(a) Bayer.
(b) Praxis.
(c) Burroughs Wellcome.
(d) Merck.

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

3. Where did Larry Kramer grow up?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Boston.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York City.

4. Where was Alvin Friedman-Kien employed when Dr. Joyce Wallace contacted him regarding cases of Kaposi's sarcoma?
(a) Berkeley Medical Center.
(b) Columbia Medical Center.
(c) NYU Medical Center.
(d) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.

5. What was the budget of the GMHC in 1987?
(a) $2 million.
(b) $3 million.
(c) $10 million.
(d) $6 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author earn his college degree?

2. What term refers to an extreme or irrational fear of heights?

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

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

5. Who intended to direct Kramer's recent stage hit to screen in 1987?

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