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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Dr. Barbara Starrett working as the director of lesbian and gay medical services when she encountered her first patient with signs of AIDS?
(a) The Roosevelt Hospital.
(b) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(c) The NYU Medical Center.
(d) The West Village Men's Clinic.

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

3. Who was the New York City health commissioner in March of 1985?
(a) Dr. James Mason.
(b) Dr. Michael Callen.
(c) Dr. David Sencer.
(d) Dr. Richard Failla.

4. Where did Peter Staley complete his coursework in political science and economics?
(a) Oberlin College.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

6. Who was the publisher of the New York Native in August of 1982?
(a) Richard Failla.
(b) Sandor Ferenczi.
(c) Chuck Ortleb.
(d) George de Stefano.

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

8. 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) Middlesex County.
(c) Kings County.
(d) Westchester County.

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

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

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

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

13. Who was the developer of AZT?
(a) Jerome P. Horwitz.
(b) Dr. David Sencer.
(c) Dr. James Mason.
(d) Chuck Ortleb.

14. 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) Two.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Six.

15. How many AIDS cases were reported by February 20, 1985, with half of them dead?
(a) 659.
(b) 5,231.
(c) 8,597.
(d) 1,367.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What psychoanalyst described "oral regression" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?

3. Where did Berkowitz move in 1985 at the invitation of a kind former client?

4. Who is the former prosecutor who advocated for the legal needs of the sick at the newly founded GMHC?

5. From where were half of the professed heterosexual men with GRID recent immigrants in 1982?

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