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

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

3. In what year is the memorial described in the Prologue?
(a) 2002.
(b) 2012.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2011.

4. What was Gregg Bordowitz's profession?
(a) Experimental filmmaker.
(b) Bookstore clerk.
(c) Attorney in training.
(d) Stock bond trader.

5. When did the author earn his college degree?
(a) 1981.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1991.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does GMHC stand for?

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

3. What drug was capable of lowering the death rate of PCP to 50%, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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

5. Who was the editor of Mandate in 1983?

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