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

2. 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) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty.

3. Who was the founder of West End Records and the owner of the welfare hotel where the GMHC established as their first permanent home?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) Paul Popham.
(c) Mel Cheren.
(d) David Webster

4. Who was the chairman of the GMHC's medical board that referred to "the Elizabeth Taylor model of behavior--serial monogamy" (53)?
(a) Richard Failla.
(b) George de Stefano.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) Dan William.

5. What is the first of the four criteria for "Koch's Postulates" that is described in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Must be capable of reproduction on its own.
(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 isolated from the carrier and must be able to crow in pure culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Bobbi Campbell's lover in 1984, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 2?

2. What does AIDS stand for?

3. Where did Larry Kramer grow up?

4. Where was Alvin Friedman-Kien employed when Dr. Joyce Wallace contacted him regarding cases of Kaposi's sarcoma?

5. Where was Dr. Barbara Starrett working as the director of lesbian and gay medical services when she encountered her first patient with signs of AIDS?

(see the answer key)

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