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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. What does CRIA stand for?
(a) Community Research Initiative on AIDS.
(b) Cancer Retroviral Infection from AIDS.
(c) Cancer Research Initiative on AIDS.
(d) Cancer Retroviral Independent Antibody.

2. What experimental compound did Mark Harrington learn researchers were testing in combination with AZT at the Primary Infection Committee meeting described in Part 4, Chapter 1?
(a) AZT.
(b) ddC.
(c) Suramin.
(d) HPA-23.

3. Who was Lawrence Mass's lover who took him to the psychiatric ward at St. Vincents when Mass became suicidal?
(a) Richard Failla.
(b) Arnie Kantrowitz.
(c) George de Stefano.
(d) Sandor Ferenczi.

4. How many people attended the first ACT UP protest on Wall Street?
(a) 400.
(b) 200.
(c) 800.
(d) 600.

5. From where did 125,000 Cuban refugees flee by raft and boat to Miami in 1980?
(a) Mariel.
(b) San Juan.
(c) St. Lopez.
(d) San Jose.

Short Answer Questions

1. ACT UP chapters from how many states were represented at the NIH protest in May of 1990?

2. Who came to represent the Women's AIDS Resource Network at the preliminary meeting for the Patient Constituency Working Group within ACTG?

3. What term refers to a reduction in the numbers of white cells in the blood, typical of various diseases?

4. Where is the toilet in question that is described in the New York Times article "Rest Room Shut to Foreclose Use by Homosexuals" (14)?

5. Who is the New York Times science writer whom Dr. Friedman-Kien called to report on the sudden emergence of KS, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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