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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Ten.

3. Where was Jane Teas working as a young pathobiologist in 1984?
(a) MIT.
(b) New York University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

4. Who was the Reagan administration's health secretary in 1985?
(a) Richard Failla.
(b) Michael Callen.
(c) John O'Connor.
(d) Margaret Heckler.

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

6. 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?
(a) 32.
(b) 16.
(c) 19.
(d) 11.

7. Where did Mathidle Krim grow up?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Zurich.

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

9. Where did Lawrence Mass work full-time when he was on the board of the GMHC?
(a) A methadone clinic.
(b) A stock brokerage firm.
(c) A publishing company.
(d) A theater company.

10. Who was the head of the clinical oncology branch of the National Cancer Institute in 1985?
(a) Dr. John Hale.
(b) Dr. Tim Sweeney.
(c) Dr. James Mason.
(d) Dr. Sam Broder.

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

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

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

14. When was Executive Order 50 issued in New York City?
(a) June, 1985.
(b) April, 1980.
(c) March, 1982.
(d) September, 1981.

15. What is the name of the social service agency that Mel Rosen was vice president of?
(a) Midnight.
(b) ACT UP.
(c) Wildcat.
(d) GMCA.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did Rosen receive for the AIDS Institute on February 27, 1985 from Albany for education money?

2. Who was the publisher of the New York Native in August of 1982?

3. Who was the developer of AZT?

4. What street in New York City does the author describe as "the mountaintop of gay life" in Part 1, Chapter 1 (13)?

5. As a conservative estimate, how many sexual partners had Michael Callen had when he was diagnosed?

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