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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the raw materials called that cancer cells use to make new DNA necessary for rapid cell divisions?
(a) Pentamidines.
(b) Bactrims.
(c) Nucleosides.
(d) Thymidine.

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

3. 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.

4. 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)?
(a) Michael Bloomberg.
(b) John Lindsay.
(c) Rudy Giuliani.
(d) Ed Koch.

5. What was the name of Anita Bryant's anti-gay religious coalition?
(a) The AIDS Institute.
(b) GMHC.
(c) ACT UP.
(d) Save Our Children.

6. 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) On the Road.
(d) Faggots.

7. Who became the archbishop of New York in early 1984?
(a) Michael Callen.
(b) John O'Connor.
(c) Margaret Heckler.
(d) James Mason.

8. Who was the chairman of the GMHC's medical board that referred to "the Elizabeth Taylor model of behavior--serial monogamy" (53)?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) George de Stefano.
(c) Richard Failla.
(d) Dan William.

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

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

11. Who is the former prosecutor who advocated for the legal needs of the sick at the newly founded GMHC?
(a) Chuck Ortleb.
(b) Richard Failla.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) George de Stefano.

12. How much money did Rosen receive for the AIDS Institute on February 27, 1985 from Albany for education money?
(a) $150,000.
(b) $40,000.
(c) $95,000.
(d) $400,000.

13. Where is the toilet in question that is described in the New York Times article "Rest Room Shut to Foreclose Use by Homosexuals" (14)?
(a) Queens County.
(b) Kings County.
(c) Westchester County.
(d) Middlesex County.

14. What word from the text in Part 1, Chapter 1 refers to an outcast from society?
(a) Demigogue.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Lemurian.
(d) Pariah.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many patients did Dr. Robert Yarchoan enroll in a protocol that included intravenous infusions of AZT three times daily for two weeks in July of 1985?

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

4. What was Gregg Bordowitz's profession?

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

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