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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 position did Tom Ho have at the Native when he took ill?
(a) Assistant art director.
(b) Assistant editor.
(c) Advertizing director.
(d) Lead editor.

2. Where was Alvin Friedman-Kien employed when Dr. Joyce Wallace contacted him regarding cases of Kaposi's sarcoma?
(a) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(b) Berkeley Medical Center.
(c) Columbia Medical Center.
(d) NYU Medical Center.

3. When did the author earn his college degree?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1989.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1981.

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 on its own.
(b) Must be capable of reproduction using human cells.
(c) Must be isolated from the carrier and must be able to crow in pure culture.
(d) Must be present in everyone suffering from the disease but in no one who is healthy.

5. What drug was capable of lowering the death rate of PCP to 50%, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Bactrim.
(b) DDI.
(c) Pentamidine.
(d) AZT.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Reagan administration's health secretary in 1985?

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

3. How old was the author when he first visited New York City?

4. Who was the developer of AZT?

5. Who at Lambda Legal Defense is cited in Part 2, Chapter 3 as saying, "It's time we had a mayor who used all his power to bring about this protection" regarding Executive Order 50 (166)?

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