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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does AIDS stand for?
(a) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(b) Antiviral Immune Deficiency Syndrom.
(c) Applicable Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(d) Active Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

2. What theorist and psychoanalyst referred to "paraphilia" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?
(a) David Webster.
(b) Alick Isaacs.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) Gregg Bordowitz.

3. Where was Dr. Barbara Starrett working as the director of lesbian and gay medical services when she encountered her first patient with signs of AIDS?
(a) The Roosevelt Hospital.
(b) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(c) The West Village Men's Clinic.
(d) The NYU Medical Center.

4. How old was the author when he first visited New York City?
(a) 19.
(b) 15.
(c) 18.
(d) 21.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the author describe visiting New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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

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

4. Where was Jane Teas working as a young pathobiologist in 1984?

5. What was the name of Anita Bryant's anti-gay religious coalition?

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