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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was AZT first developed?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1969.

2. 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?
(a) The West Village Men's Clinic.
(b) The Roosevelt Hospital.
(c) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(d) The NYU Medical Center.

3. Who became the archbishop of New York in early 1984?
(a) John O'Connor.
(b) Michael Callen.
(c) Margaret Heckler.
(d) James Mason.

4. What did the weekly newsletter TITA stand for?
(a) Tell It To AIDS.
(b) Tell It To Arnie.
(c) The Independent Tri-AIDS.
(d) Tell It To ACT UP.

5. Who was Martin Sheen's best friend and best man at his wedding who had died in 1987?
(a) Howard Moody.
(b) Michael Callen.
(c) John Douglas Crane.
(d) Scott Bernard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many cases of the gay cancer were on the CDC list by July of 1982?

2. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?

3. What do OIs refer to?

4. What new experimental therapy had Montagnier recently discovered in 1985 with his colleague Jean-Claude Chermann to have potential to curb reverse transcription?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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