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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had just assumed the position as the CDC director in March of 1985?
(a) Dr. Michael Callen.
(b) Dr. James Mason.
(c) Dr. John O'Connor.
(d) Dr. David Sencer.

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

3. What code name was AZT given when taken to trial for AIDS?
(a) "Compound R."
(b) "Compound A."
(c) "Compound S."
(d) "Compound Q."

4. What theorist and psychoanalyst referred to "paraphilia" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) David Webster.
(c) Alick Isaacs.
(d) Gregg Bordowitz.

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

6. Where did Richard Berkowitz earn a journalism degree?
(a) New York University.
(b) Rutgers University.
(c) Berkeley University.
(d) Princeton University.

7. How many chapters did the ACT UP organization count at its peak?
(a) 212.
(b) 112.
(c) 119.
(d) 148.

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

9. Who was the head of the NIAID in July of 1985?
(a) Dr. David Sencer.
(b) Dr. Tom Steele.
(c) Dr. Tony Fauci.
(d) Dr. James Mason.

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

11. When did Ed Koch become the mayor of New York City?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1982.

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

13. When does the author describe visiting New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1977.

14. Who was nominated as the leader of the newly formed GMHC?
(a) Paul Popham.
(b) Michael Callen.
(c) Lawrence K. Altman.
(d) David Webster.

15. For whom is the memorial service that is described in the Prologue?
(a) Spencer Cox.
(b) Gregg Bordowitz.
(c) David Webster.
(d) Dr. Stanley F. Yolles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the toilet in question that is described in the New York Times article "Rest Room Shut to Foreclose Use by Homosexuals" (14)?

2. When was suramin first pushed into human trials for AIDS?

3. What was Gregg Bordowitz's profession?

4. How much money did the lawyers for the 49 West 12 Tenants Corporation offer Sonnabend as restitution, plus legal costs?

5. Before the spread of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma struck how many Americans out of every three million, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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