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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 word from the text in Part 1, Chapter 1 refers to an outcast from society?
(a) Lemurian.
(b) Catalyst.
(c) Pariah.
(d) Demigogue.

2. How many AIDS cases were reported by February 20, 1985, with half of them dead?
(a) 8,597.
(b) 1,367.
(c) 659.
(d) 5,231.

3. When was suramin first pushed into human trials for AIDS?
(a) March 23, 1968.
(b) August 6, 1984.
(c) July 30, 1986.
(d) June 2, 1985.

4. From where did 125,000 Cuban refugees flee by raft and boat to Miami in 1980?
(a) San Jose.
(b) San Juan.
(c) St. Lopez.
(d) Mariel.

5. Who had just assumed the position as the CDC director in March of 1985?
(a) Dr. Michael Callen.
(b) Dr. James Mason.
(c) Dr. David Sencer.
(d) Dr. John O'Connor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?

2. When does the author describe visiting New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?

3. What are the two sorts of T-cells?

4. Who was the Reagan administration's health secretary in 1985?

5. From where does the author say he was on a college sojourn when he visited New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was the first news of the plague that would later be called AIDS revealed in a noted media publication? What information was revealed?

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

3. What is Bactrim and why was it used on patients with HIV/AIDS?

4. What is suramin and how did it come to be tested for the treatment of AIDS?

5. How is Dr. Robert Yarchoan's Phase I trial on AZT described?

6. Who was Michael Callen? What led him to his collaboration with Richard Berkowitz?

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

8. Whose funeral is described in the Prologue? What were this individual's major contributions to the cause, as discussed in this chapter?

9. What is AZT and who developed it?

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

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