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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 title of the thinly veiled roman a clef that Larry Kramer published in 1978?
(a) On the Road.
(b) Faggots.
(c) The San Francisco Story.
(d) The Astolfi Tavern.

2. Who was the developer of AZT?
(a) Jerome P. Horwitz.
(b) Chuck Ortleb.
(c) Dr. James Mason.
(d) Dr. David Sencer.

3. Where did Richard Berkowitz earn a journalism degree?
(a) Rutgers University.
(b) New York University.
(c) Berkeley University.
(d) Princeton University.

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

5. What do OIs refer to?
(a) Obsolete infections.
(b) Opportunistic infections.
(c) Ordinary infections.
(d) Outside infiections.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did GMHC receive from state AIDS contracts in Albany for "public information" on February 27, 1985?

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

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

4. With whom did Larry Kramer have a nasty separation, leading to Kramer's turning against the gay world entirely, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is HTLV-3 and who discovered it?

2. What is AZT and who developed it?

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

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

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

6. Where did Larry Kramer grow up? How did this influence him as an individual?

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

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

9. What is GMHC and how was it founded?

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

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