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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) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(b) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(c) Columbia Medical Center.
(d) NYU Medical Center.

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

3. Who was nominated as the leader of the newly formed GMHC?
(a) Lawrence K. Altman.
(b) David Webster.
(c) Paul Popham.
(d) Michael Callen.

4. What philanthropist donated $1,000 to Dr. Friedman-Kien's research because she was worried about her gay brother?
(a) Lily Auchincloss.
(b) Anna Webster.
(c) Anna Isaacs.
(d) Letitia Bordowitz.

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

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

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

5. With whom did Larry Kramer have a nasty separation, leading to Kramer's turning against the gay world entirely, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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