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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does GRID stand for?
(a) Gay retroviral immune deficiency.
(b) Gay-related internal destruction.
(c) Gay-related immune deficiency.
(d) Gamma-ray intensity diagonistics.

2. Where was Tom Ho taken when he became ill?
(a) Lenox Hill Hospital.
(b) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(c) Berkeley Medical Center.
(d) Memorial Sloan Kettering.

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

4. What drug was shown in studies to be nearly 100% effective in preventing PCP in at-risk populations in the mid-1970s?
(a) AZT.
(b) Pentamidine.
(c) DDI.
(d) Bactrim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did GMHC receive from state AIDS contracts in Albany for "public information" on February 27, 1985?

2. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?

3. Who was Stephen Roach's lover who accompanied him to the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company that produced AL721 in 1987?

4. How much had the mayor of New York City spend in the first 30 months of plague, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 2?

5. 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)?

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