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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 3 - 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the author doing an internship for when he first visited New York City?
(a) The Globe.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The United Nations.
(d) The New York Post.

2. What is the title of the thinly veiled roman a clef that Larry Kramer published in 1978?
(a) The San Francisco Story.
(b) The Astolfi Tavern.
(c) On the Road.
(d) Faggots.

3. When does the author describe visiting New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 1978.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1982.

4. Where was Alvin Friedman-Kien employed when Dr. Joyce Wallace contacted him regarding cases of Kaposi's sarcoma?
(a) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(b) Berkeley Medical Center.
(c) NYU Medical Center.
(d) Columbia Medical Center.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From where does the author say he was on a college sojourn when he visited New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?

2. What word from the text in Part 1, Chapter 1 refers to an outcast from society?

3. What street in New York City does the author describe as "the mountaintop of gay life" in Part 1, Chapter 1 (13)?

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

5. What drug was shown in studies to be nearly 100% effective in preventing PCP in at-risk populations in the mid-1970s?

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