1. Trichosanthes kirilowii is a common landscaping plant that is also known as what?
(a) Japanese pear.
(b) Chinese cucumber.
(c) Diviner's sage.
(d) Star thistle.

2. Who was the discoverer of interferon that Dr. Joe Sonnabend studied with?
(a) Edmund Bergler.
(b) Lawrence K. Altman.
(c) Alick Isaacs.
(d) Sandor Ferenczi.

3. How old was Griffin Gold when he was hospitalized in July of 1988?
(a) 29.
(b) 23.
(c) 32.
(d) 36.

4. What new experimental therapy had Montagnier recently discovered in 1985 with his colleague Jean-Claude Chermann to have potential to curb reverse transcription?
(a) Suramin.
(b) HPA-23.
(c) Pentamidine.
(d) AZT.

5. How many chapters did the ACT UP organization count at its peak?
(a) 112.
(b) 212.
(c) 148.
(d) 119.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Larry Kramer have a nasty separation, leading to Kramer's turning against the gay world entirely, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

2. When did Ed Koch become the mayor of New York City?

3. Who from New York's Black Leadership Commission on AIDS attended the preliminary meeting for the Patient Constituency Working Group within ACTG?

4. What state agency did Mel Rosen leave the GMHC to start?

5. When was Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment first published?

(see the answer key)

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