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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. In what year is the memorial described in the Prologue?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2012.

2. What human enzyme is AZT a dead ringer for?
(a) Thymidine.
(b) Pentamidine.
(c) Thiamin.
(d) Nucleoside.

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

4. Who is the New York Times science writer whom Dr. Friedman-Kien called to report on the sudden emergence of KS, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Edmund Bergler.
(b) David Webster.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) Lawrence K. Altman.

5. Who was Bobbi Campbell's lover in 1984, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) John O'Connor.
(b) James Mason.
(c) Bob Hilliard.
(d) Michael Callen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play of Larry Kramer's opened at the Public Theater in 1985?

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

3. When was Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment first published?

4. What was the official count of those who died from AIDS in the United States by the end of 2012?

5. The two-step procedure for blood testing for HTLV-3/LAV used a method called ELISA and another called what?

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