View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the CDC headquarters located?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Seattle.
(c) New York.
(d) Washington, D.C.

2. What code name was AZT given when taken to trial for AIDS?
(a) "Compound A."
(b) "Compound S."
(c) "Compound Q."
(d) "Compound R."

3. Who was the head of the clinical oncology branch of the National Cancer Institute in 1985?
(a) Dr. Tim Sweeney.
(b) Dr. John Hale.
(c) Dr. James Mason.
(d) Dr. Sam Broder.

4. What psychoanalyst described "oral regression" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?
(a) David Webster.
(b) Alick Isaacs.
(c) Edmund Bergler.
(d) Gregg Bordowitz.

5. Who is the former prosecutor who advocated for the legal needs of the sick at the newly founded GMHC?
(a) Richard Failla.
(b) George de Stefano.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) Chuck Ortleb.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When did Ed Koch become the mayor of New York City?

3. Who was the founder of West End Records and the owner of the welfare hotel where the GMHC established as their first permanent home?

4. What new experimental therapy had Montagnier recently discovered in 1985 with his colleague Jean-Claude Chermann to have potential to curb reverse transcription?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 244 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample