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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. For whom is the memorial service that is described in the Prologue?
(a) Gregg Bordowitz.
(b) Dr. Stanley F. Yolles.
(c) David Webster.
(d) Spencer Cox.

2. What is the name of the social service agency that Mel Rosen was vice president of?
(a) ACT UP.
(b) Midnight.
(c) GMCA.
(d) Wildcat.

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

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

5. Where did Peter Staley complete his coursework in political science and economics?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Oberlin College.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the thinly veiled roman a clef that Larry Kramer published in 1978?

2. Of what New York City mayor did Kramer write, "With his silence on AIDS, the Mayor of New York is helping to kill us" (82)?

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. 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?

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

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