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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. What term refers to a reduction in the numbers of white cells in the blood, typical of various diseases?
(a) Pentamidine.
(b) Leukopenia.
(c) Suramin.
(d) Nucleoside.

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

3. Who had just assumed the position as the CDC director in March of 1985?
(a) Dr. James Mason.
(b) Dr. David Sencer.
(c) Dr. John O'Connor.
(d) Dr. Michael Callen.

4. 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)?
(a) Ed Koch.
(b) John Lindsay.
(c) Rudy Giuliani.
(d) Michael Bloomberg.

5. 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)?
(a) Dr. David Webster.
(b) Dr. Stanley F. Yolles.
(c) Dr. Gregg Bordowitz.
(d) Dr. Alick Isaacs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the editor of Mandate in 1983?

2. Who was the developer of AZT?

3. What theorist and psychoanalyst referred to "paraphilia" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?

4. What do OIs refer to?

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?

(see the answer key)

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