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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. Who was nominated as the leader of the newly formed GMHC?
(a) Paul Popham.
(b) Lawrence K. Altman.
(c) David Webster.
(d) Michael Callen.

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

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

4. 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 capable of reproduction using human cells.
(c) Must be present in everyone suffering from the disease but in no one who is healthy.
(d) Must be isolated from the carrier and must be able to crow in pure culture.

5. Who was the first of Dr. Yarchoan's patients to be treated with AZT in clinical trial in July of 1985?
(a) John Hale.
(b) John O'Connor.
(c) Tim Sweeney.
(d) Joseph Rafuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a conservative estimate, how many sexual partners had Michael Callen had when he was diagnosed?

2. From where did 125,000 Cuban refugees flee by raft and boat to Miami in 1980?

3. What are the raw materials called that cancer cells use to make new DNA necessary for rapid cell divisions?

4. Where was Alvin Friedman-Kien employed when Dr. Joyce Wallace contacted him regarding cases of Kaposi's sarcoma?

5. What state agency did Mel Rosen leave the GMHC to start?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Dr. James Mason's history before assuming the job as the CDC director?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is AZT and who developed it?

8. What was the New York Native? Who founded it?

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

10. What theories arose regarding the 79 AIDS cases of individuals claiming not to be gay in 1982?

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