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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment first published?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1979.

2. What new experimental therapy had Montagnier recently discovered in 1985 with his colleague Jean-Claude Chermann to have potential to curb reverse transcription?
(a) Pentamidine.
(b) HPA-23.
(c) Suramin.
(d) AZT.

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

4. Who was the Montgomery, Alabama mayor who warned in a front-page Montgomery Advertiser story that he had zero sympathy for AIDS victims?
(a) Jim Eigo.
(b) Emory Folmar.
(c) David Sencer.
(d) Joseph Rafuse.

5. What is the title of the thinly veiled roman a clef that Larry Kramer published in 1978?
(a) Faggots.
(b) The San Francisco Story.
(c) On the Road.
(d) The Astolfi Tavern.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year is the memorial described in the Prologue?

2. How many chapters did the ACT UP organization count at its peak?

3. Who became the archbishop of New York in early 1984?

4. What experimental compound did Mark Harrington learn researchers were testing in combination with AZT at the Primary Infection Committee meeting described in Part 4, Chapter 1?

5. Where did Richard Berkowitz earn a journalism degree?

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