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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 Richard Berkowitz earn a journalism degree?
(a) New York University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Berkeley University.

2. What is the name of the rock band that Michael Callen formed after being diagnosed?
(a) Black Dawn.
(b) New Wave.
(c) Faggots.
(d) Lowlife.

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

4. From where were half of the professed heterosexual men with GRID recent immigrants in 1982?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Nigeria.
(c) Sudan.
(d) Haiti.

5. What street in New York City does the author describe as "the mountaintop of gay life" in Part 1, Chapter 1 (13)?
(a) Christopher Street.
(b) Greenwich Street.
(c) Broadway.
(d) Lafayette Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the spread of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma struck how many Americans out of every three million, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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?

3. Who was Lawrence Mass's lover who took him to the psychiatric ward at St. Vincents when Mass became suicidal?

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

5. Who was the chairman of the GMHC's medical board that referred to "the Elizabeth Taylor model of behavior--serial monogamy" (53)?

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