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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. Where did Mathidle Krim grow up?
(a) Paris.
(b) Geneva.
(c) Zurich.
(d) London.

2. What code name was AZT given when taken to trial for AIDS?
(a) "Compound A."
(b) "Compound S."
(c) "Compound Q."
(d) "Compound R."

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

4. Who is the New York Times science writer whom Dr. Friedman-Kien called to report on the sudden emergence of KS, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Edmund Bergler.
(b) Lawrence K. Altman.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) David Webster.

5. What philanthropist donated $1,000 to Dr. Friedman-Kien's research because she was worried about her gay brother?
(a) Anna Webster.
(b) Letitia Bordowitz.
(c) Anna Isaacs.
(d) Lily Auchincloss.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of AIDS cases were in the New York metropolitan area in February of 1983?

2. Who oversaw the magazine Christopher Street in late 1983?

3. What drug was capable of lowering the death rate of PCP to 50%, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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

5. When was suramin first pushed into human trials for AIDS?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How and where did Dr. Joe Sonnabend come across his first AIDS patients?

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

5. Who is Samuel Broder and what was his position from 1989 to 1995?

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

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

8. Who was Mathidle Krim and what led her to AIDS research?

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

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

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