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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first of the four criteria for "Koch's Postulates" that is described in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Must be capable of reproduction on its own.
(b) Must be present in everyone suffering from the disease but in no one who is healthy.
(c) Must be isolated from the carrier and must be able to crow in pure culture.
(d) Must be capable of reproduction using human cells.

2. Who was the head of the NIAID in July of 1985?
(a) Dr. David Sencer.
(b) Dr. Tony Fauci.
(c) Dr. James Mason.
(d) Dr. Tom Steele.

3. From where were half of the professed heterosexual men with GRID recent immigrants in 1982?
(a) Haiti.
(b) Sudan.
(c) Nigeria.
(d) Columbia.

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

5. What psychoanalyst described "oral regression" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?
(a) David Webster.
(b) Alick Isaacs.
(c) Edmund Bergler.
(d) Gregg Bordowitz.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ed Koch become the mayor of New York City?

2. When was Executive Order 50 issued in New York City?

3. Who was the New York City health commissioner in March of 1985?

4. What word from the text in Part 1, Chapter 1 refers to an outcast from society?

5. What street in New York City does the author describe as "the mountaintop of gay life" in Part 1, Chapter 1 (13)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe his findings when he looked up "Homosexuality" in his school library at 18?

2. How many people still die of AIDS every year around the globe (as of the book's publication in 2016)? Why?

3. How does David France describe his visit home in late 1983?

4. What were the Stonewall riots and when did they occur?

5. What is Burroughs Wellcome and why is it significant?

6. Who is Richard Berkowitz and what led him to activism?

7. What does GRID mean and where did this term originate?

8. What book led Ortleb to believe the government was intentionally causing AIDS deaths? What was the subject of this book?

9. Who wrote the novel Faggots and what was controversial about this book?

10. How are Dr. Sonnabend's finances described in early 1983?

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