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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 3 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where did 125,000 Cuban refugees flee by raft and boat to Miami in 1980?
(a) San Jose.
(b) San Juan.
(c) St. Lopez.
(d) Mariel.

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

3. How many chapters did the ACT UP organization count at its peak?
(a) 119.
(b) 148.
(c) 112.
(d) 212.

4. What new experimental therapy had Montagnier recently discovered in 1985 with his colleague Jean-Claude Chermann to have potential to curb reverse transcription?
(a) Pentamidine.
(b) AZT.
(c) Suramin.
(d) HPA-23.

5. What was the author doing an internship for when he first visited New York City?
(a) The Globe.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The New York Post.
(d) The United Nations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lawrence Mass work full-time when he was on the board of the GMHC?

2. Where did Larry Kramer grow up?

3. Who oversaw the magazine Christopher Street in late 1983?

4. When did the author earn his college degree?

5. Where did Mathidle Krim grow up?

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