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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who intended to direct Kramer's recent stage hit to screen in 1987?
(a) Woody Allen.
(b) Joan Crawford.
(c) Barbara Streisand.
(d) Helen Hayes.

2. What does OAR stand for?
(a) Organization of AIDS Researchers.
(b) Operation for Anibody Research.
(c) Office of AIDS Research.
(d) Operation for AIDS Research.

3. What did the posthumous diagnosis show that Doug Gould died from?
(a) Streptococcus pneumonia.
(b) Mycoplasma pneumonia.
(c) Legionella pneumonia.
(d) Cytomegalovirus pneumonia.

4. 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) C. Everett Koop.
(c) John Hale.
(d) Dr. Tony Fauci.

5. Where did Nathan Fain go to spend his last days before dying?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) Texas.
(c) North Carolina.
(d) Louisiana.

6. To whose memory did Mark Harrington dedicate his ACTG Critique?
(a) John Ziegler's.
(b) Scott Johnson's.
(c) John Douglas Crane's.
(d) Dr. Steve Miles's.

7. Who sent his private jet to bring Ryan White's family to Disneyland?
(a) Elton John.
(b) Jim Eigo.
(c) Joseph Rafuse.
(d) Dr. David Sencer.

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

9. Who was Bill Clinton's new health secretary in January of 1993?
(a) Dr. Tony Fauci.
(b) John Hale.
(c) Tim Sweeney.
(d) Donna Shalala.

10. What does CRI stand for?
(a) Community Retroviral Initiative.
(b) Cancer Research Institute.
(c) Cancer Research Industry.
(d) Community Research Initiative.

11. Who did President Bush open up a prime-time spot for a program about during the 1992 presidential elections?
(a) Dr. Tony Fauci.
(b) John Hale.
(c) Mary Fisher.
(d) Tim Sweeney.

12. Where was the biotech firm Imreg headquartered in 1988?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) Boston.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) New York.

13. Who headed a committee called Issues for ACT UP alongside Iris Long?
(a) Sloan Kettering.
(b) Dr. David Sencer.
(c) Joseph Rafuse.
(d) Jim Eigo.

14. Where are Merck's headquarters located?
(a) Rahway, New Jersey.
(b) Rochester, New York.
(c) Newark, New Jersey.
(d) New York City.

15. Who was the Montgomery, Alabama mayor who warned in a front-page Montgomery Advertiser story that he had zero sympathy for AIDS victims?
(a) Jim Eigo.
(b) Joseph Rafuse.
(c) David Sencer.
(d) Emory Folmar.

Short Answer Questions

1. ACT UP chapters from how many states were represented at the NIH protest in May of 1990?

2. Who was Martin Sheen's best friend and best man at his wedding who had died in 1987?

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

4. Who was the AIDS adviser for Congressman Henry Waxman?

5. Who was the genius behind ACT UP's media machine that challenged presidential candidate Bill Clinton to address the AIDS crisis in 1992?

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