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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 was Dr. Barbara Starrett working as the director of lesbian and gay medical services when she encountered her first patient with signs of AIDS?
(a) The West Village Men's Clinic.
(b) The NYU Medical Center.
(c) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(d) The Roosevelt Hospital.

2. Before the spread of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma struck how many Americans out of every three million, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Ten.
(b) Two.
(c) Six.
(d) Twenty.

3. 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) David Webster.
(b) Sandor Ferenczi.
(c) Edmund Bergler.
(d) Lawrence K. Altman.

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

5. How much had the mayor of New York City spend in the first 30 months of plague, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) $24,500.
(b) $35,000.
(c) $124,000.
(d) $42,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Berkowitz move in 1985 at the invitation of a kind former client?

3. Who was Bobbi Campbell's lover in 1984, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 2?

4. What do OIs refer to?

5. What is the name of the social service agency that Mel Rosen was vice president of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What comparisons does the author make regarding AIDS research and funding in New York City versus San Francisco in early 1984?

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

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

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

7. What is Executive Order 50? When was it enacted and by whom?

8. What is significant about John O'Connor's instillation as archbishop of New York in 1984?

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

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

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