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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does GMHC stand for?
(a) Gay men's health community.
(b) Gay men's health crisis.
(c) Gay men's honor code.
(d) Gay men's healing center.

3. For whom is the memorial service that is described in the Prologue?
(a) Spencer Cox.
(b) Dr. Stanley F. Yolles.
(c) David Webster.
(d) Gregg Bordowitz.

4. What does AIDS stand for?
(a) Applicable Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(b) Antiviral Immune Deficiency Syndrom.
(c) Active Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(d) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

5. Before the spread of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma struck how many Americans out of every three million, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Two.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Peter Staley complete his coursework in political science and economics?

2. Of what New York City mayor did Kramer write, "With his silence on AIDS, the Mayor of New York is helping to kill us" (82)?

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

4. From where were half of the professed heterosexual men with GRID recent immigrants in 1982?

5. What drug was capable of lowering the death rate of PCP to 50%, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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