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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Rob Rafsky contract HIV?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1987.

2. What pharmaceutical company produced acyclovir?
(a) Merck.
(b) Burroughs Wellcome.
(c) Bayer.
(d) Praxis.

3. Who was Ryan White's doctor who stated, "I can assure everyone [White] has AIDS and it's still fatal" (312)?
(a) Dr. Martin B. Kleiman.
(b) Dr. Jim Eigo.
(c) Dr. Joseph Rafuse.
(d) Dr. David Sencer.

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

5. Where was Doug Gould adopted?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Texas.
(d) Arkansas.

6. 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) Anna Douglas Crane.
(c) Dr. Steve Miles.
(d) Jessica Ziegler.

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

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

9. Who was Eric Sawyer's lover who had recently died in 1987?
(a) Scott Bernard.
(b) Howard Moody.
(c) Michael Callen.
(d) John Douglas Crane.

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

11. What had ACTG's budget expanded to in 1990?
(a) $2 billion.
(b) $64 million.
(c) $45 million.
(d) $90 million.

12. Who from the pharmaceutical industry showed Stephen Roach how to make AL721?
(a) John Douglas Crane.
(b) Claire Klepner.
(c) Scott Bernard.
(d) Howard Moody.

13. Who was the attorney and T+D member who played a principal role in making the experimental anti-pneumonia drug trimetrexate available to the public?
(a) David Sencer.
(b) David Barr.
(c) Joseph Rafuse.
(d) Jim Eigo.

14. What was the headline of The Village Voice's adapted publication of Mark Harrington's ACTG Critique?
(a) "AIDS Research Stalled."
(b) "Struggles in Queendom."
(c) "Anatomy of a Disaster."
(d) "Christopher Street Dilemma."

15. Above what park did Larry Kramer have a one-bedroom apartment in 1987, according to the author in Part 3, Chapter 1?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Lafayette Park.
(c) Prospect Park.
(d) Washington Square Park.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sent his private jet to bring Ryan White's family to Disneyland?

2. What experimental compound did Mark Harrington learn researchers were testing in combination with AZT at the Primary Infection Committee meeting described in Part 4, Chapter 1?

3. Who was the current NIH head leading up to the 1992 presidential elections?

4. 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?

5. Who was the pastor of the Judson Memorial Church that agreed to use their facility for the launch press conference for AL721?

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