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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Edmund White live and write in 1987?
(a) Paris.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) New York.

2. What pharmaceutical company did Dr. Sonnabend hammer away at for a supply of AL721 in 1987?
(a) Merck.
(b) Burroughs Wellcome.
(c) Praxis.
(d) Bayer.

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

4. Who was the genius behind ACT UP's media machine that challenged presidential candidate Bill Clinton to address the AIDS crisis in 1992?
(a) Tim Sweeney.
(b) John Hale.
(c) Bob Rafsky.
(d) Dr. Tony Fauci.

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

6. Where did Mark Harrington study art, literature, and history?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

7. What does CRIA stand for?
(a) Cancer Retroviral Infection from AIDS.
(b) Cancer Research Initiative on AIDS.
(c) Cancer Retroviral Independent Antibody.
(d) Community Research Initiative on AIDS.

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

9. How many people attended the first ACT UP protest on Wall Street?
(a) 200.
(b) 400.
(c) 600.
(d) 800.

10. Where had Peter Staley taken a job after leaving J. P. Morgan?
(a) CRT Government Securities.
(b) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(c) Lenox Hill Hospital.
(d) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.

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

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

13. Who is the author of The Celluloid Closet?
(a) Howard Moody.
(b) Vito Russo.
(c) Scott Bernard.
(d) John Douglas Crane.

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

15. For what novel had Nora Ephron recently received bestselling success in 1987?
(a) Heartburn.
(b) Lonely Heart.
(c) Chuckaroo.
(d) When Harry Met Sally.

Short Answer Questions

1. Above what park did Larry Kramer have a one-bedroom apartment in 1987, according to the author in Part 3, Chapter 1?

2. Who was Bill Clinton's new health secretary in January of 1993?

3. Who was the medical director of CRI that Mark Harrington charged at Callen's final board meeting?

4. Where did Dr. Sonnaben manage to get a hospital bed for Griffin Gold in July of 1988?

5. Who from Burroughs Wellcome's public affairs department met with Peter Staley and Mark Harrington, as described in Part 3, Chapter 5?

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