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

2. 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?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) Edmund Bergler.
(c) Lawrence K. Altman.
(d) David Webster.

3. Where did Mathidle Krim grow up?
(a) Geneva.
(b) Zurich.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

4. 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?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Washington.
(c) Michigan.
(d) California.

5. When did the Stonewall Riots take place?
(a) March 11, 1969.
(b) March 12, 1970.
(c) July 23, 1971.
(d) June 28, 1969.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what New York City mayor did Kramer write, "With his silence on AIDS, the Mayor of New York is helping to kill us" (82)?

2. What was the official count of those who died from AIDS in the United States by the end of 2012?

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

4. What psychoanalyst described "oral regression" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?

5. What percentage of AIDS cases were in the New York metropolitan area in February of 1983?

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