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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. Where did Lawrence Mass work full-time when he was on the board of the GMHC?
(a) A stock brokerage firm.
(b) A methadone clinic.
(c) A theater company.
(d) A publishing company.

2. What does GMHC stand for?
(a) Gay men's healing center.
(b) Gay men's health crisis.
(c) Gay men's health community.
(d) Gay men's honor code.

3. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?
(a) NYU Medical Center.
(b) Columbia Medical Center.
(c) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(d) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.

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

5. What theorist and psychoanalyst referred to "paraphilia" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) Alick Isaacs.
(c) David Webster.
(d) Gregg Bordowitz.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does the author describe visiting New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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

4. Where did Peter Staley complete his coursework in political science and economics?

5. How old was the author when he first visited New York City?

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