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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 disease was suramin being prescribed to treat in Africa when it was first put on trial in AIDS research?
(a) Emphysema.
(b) Gonorrhea.
(c) Syphilis.
(d) River blindness.

2. Who was the editor of Mandate in 1983?
(a) Richard Failla.
(b) Sandor Ferenczi.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) George de Stefano.

3. 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?
(a) Lawrence K. Altman.
(b) Edmund Bergler.
(c) David Webster.
(d) Sandor Ferenczi.

4. What is the first of the four criteria for "Koch's Postulates" that is described in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Must be capable of reproduction using human cells.
(b) Must be present in everyone suffering from the disease but in no one who is healthy.
(c) Must be capable of reproduction on its own.
(d) Must be isolated from the carrier and must be able to crow in pure culture.

5. What does ASFV stand for?
(a) AIDS safety forum for violence.
(b) AIDS socialites for virology.
(c) African swine fever virus.
(d) AIDS San Francisco virus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the head of the clinical oncology branch of the National Cancer Institute in 1985?

2. What is the North Carolina-based drugmaker that expressed interest in investing research into AIDS when confronted by Broder?

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

4. When was AZT first developed?

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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