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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) Lawrence K. Altman.
(b) Edmund Bergler.
(c) Alick Isaacs.
(d) Sandor Ferenczi.

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

3. 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) Lawrence K. Altman.
(b) Sandor Ferenczi.
(c) Edmund Bergler.
(d) David Webster.

4. Where is Dr. Joe Sonnabend from?
(a) England.
(b) Brazil.
(c) France.
(d) South Africa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author earn his college degree?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

5. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?

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