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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) NYU Medical Center.
(b) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(c) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(d) Columbia Medical Center.

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

3. What is the second of the four criteria for "Koch's Postulates" that is described in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Must be isolated from the carrier and must be able to crow in pure culture.
(b) Must be present in everyone suffering from the disease but in no one who is healthy.
(c) Must be capable of reproduction using human cells.
(d) Must be capable of reproduction on its own.

4. Where did Lawrence Mass work full-time when he was on the board of the GMHC?
(a) A theater company.
(b) A methadone clinic.
(c) A publishing company.
(d) A stock brokerage firm.

5. Who was the New York City health commissioner in March of 1985?
(a) Dr. James Mason.
(b) Dr. Richard Failla.
(c) Dr. David Sencer.
(d) Dr. Michael Callen.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Executive Order 50 issued in New York City?

2. For what novel had Nora Ephron recently received bestselling success in 1987?

3. What is the first of the four criteria for "Koch's Postulates" that is described in Part 2, Chapter 2?

4. What does GMHC stand for?

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

(see the answer key)

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