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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who from New York's Black Leadership Commission on AIDS attended the preliminary meeting for the Patient Constituency Working Group within ACTG?
(a) John Ziegler.
(b) Dr. Steve Miles.
(c) Debra Fraser-Howze.
(d) John Douglas Crane.

2. What convenience store chain canceled health insurance for any of its 26,000 employees with AIDS unless it was contracted through a blood transfusion or errant spouse in 1988?
(a) Circle K.
(b) Wawa.
(c) CarMart.
(d) Quick-E Mart.

3. How old was Griffin Gold when he was hospitalized in July of 1988?
(a) 23.
(b) 29.
(c) 36.
(d) 32.

4. Who was the New York health commissioner whose office was taken over by protesters who demanded his resignation?
(a) Jim Eigo.
(b) Joseph Rafuse.
(c) Stephen Joseph.
(d) Dr. David Sencer.

5. What did the weekly newsletter TITA stand for?
(a) Tell It To Arnie.
(b) Tell It To ACT UP.
(c) Tell It To AIDS.
(d) The Independent Tri-AIDS.

6. Who was the head of the research project that ran the Phase II trial that Bill Bahlman and Michael Becker participated in for Merck?
(a) Dr. Tony Fauci.
(b) Emilio Emini.
(c) John Hale.
(d) Tim Sweeney.

7. What was the code name of the first of the "mysterious capsules" that Bill Bahlman and Michael Becker received from Merck for a trial?
(a) DDI.
(b) L-697,661.
(c) ddC.
(d) HPA-23.

8. ACT UP chapters from how many states were represented at the NIH protest in May of 1990?
(a) 16.
(b) 20.
(c) 10.
(d) 32.

9. What was the budget of the GMHC in 1987?
(a) $3 million.
(b) $6 million.
(c) $2 million.
(d) $10 million.

10. In Kramer's plan, who was the renegade surgeon general that would be put in charge of the Manhattan Project for AIDS?
(a) Tim Sweeney.
(b) John Hale.
(c) C. Everett Koop.
(d) Dr. Tony Fauci.

11. What does the acronym ACT UP stand for?
(a) AIDS Center for Treatment and Urgent Participation.
(b) AIDS Community Toward Upper Power.
(c) AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
(d) AIDS Community to Urgent Preexamination.

12. Where did Dr. Sonnaben manage to get a hospital bed for Griffin Gold in July of 1988?
(a) Lenox Hill Hospital.
(b) Columbia Medical Center.
(c) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(d) St. Luke's Hospital.

13. Who came to represent the Women's AIDS Resource Network at the preliminary meeting for the Patient Constituency Working Group within ACTG?
(a) Jessica Ziegler.
(b) Anna Douglas Crane.
(c) Marie St.-Cyr Delpe.
(d) Dr. Steve Miles.

14. Who was the gay Clinton adviser who spoke at the Democratic convention for Bill Clinton in 1992?
(a) Tony Fauci.
(b) Tim Sweeney.
(c) John Hale.
(d) Bob Hattoy.

15. What does TAG stand for?
(a) Treatment Antibody Group.
(b) Teen AIDS Group.
(c) Treatment for AIDS Group.
(d) Treatment Action Group.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Ryan White's doctor who stated, "I can assure everyone [White] has AIDS and it's still fatal" (312)?

2. Who was the chairman of UCSF's AIDS task force in 1990?

3. Who was the policy analyst at AIDS Project Los Angeles that attended the preliminary meeting for the Patient Constituency Working Group within ACTG?

4. What does CRI stand for?

5. Who suggested shutting down Wall Street as a means of protest at the meeting for advocacy and protests described in Part 3, Chapter 1?

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