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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. 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?
(a) California.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Michigan.
(d) Washington.

2. Where was Alvin Friedman-Kien employed when Dr. Joyce Wallace contacted him regarding cases of Kaposi's sarcoma?
(a) Columbia Medical Center.
(b) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(c) Berkeley Medical Center.
(d) NYU Medical Center.

3. Where did Larry Kramer grow up?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Boston.
(c) New York City.
(d) Washington, D.C.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the toilet in question that is described in the New York Times article "Rest Room Shut to Foreclose Use by Homosexuals" (14)?

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

3. Who was the director of the U.S. Public Health Service that wrote, "With broadened parental understanding and more scientific research, hopefully, the chances that anyone's child will become victim of homosexuality will eventually decrease" (16)?

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

5. What does AIDS stand for?

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