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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. How much money did GMHC receive from state AIDS contracts in Albany for "public information" on February 27, 1985?
(a) $95,000.
(b) $67,034.
(c) $231,000.
(d) $183,000.

2. What does ARC stand for?
(a) Antiviral retrovirus cancer.
(b) AIDS research community.
(c) AIDS respect community.
(d) AIDS-related complex.

3. 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) $124,000.
(b) $35,000.
(c) $42,000.
(d) $24,500.

4. What human enzyme is AZT a dead ringer for?
(a) Thiamin.
(b) Nucleoside.
(c) Thymidine.
(d) Pentamidine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the head of the clinical oncology branch of the National Cancer Institute in 1985?

2. What does GRID stand for?

3. The two-step procedure for blood testing for HTLV-3/LAV used a method called ELISA and another called what?

4. What was Gregg Bordowitz's profession?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does ACT UP refer to? When, where, and by whom was it established?

8. What is GMHC and how was it founded?

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

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

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