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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) London.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Paris.

2. What play of Larry Kramer's opened at the Public Theater in 1985?
(a) Faggots.
(b) Lenox Hill Memories.
(c) The Normal Heart.
(d) The Loneley Hunter.

3. Where was Jane Teas working as a young pathobiologist in 1984?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) MIT.
(c) New York University.
(d) Harvard University.

4. What was the author doing an internship for when he first visited New York City?
(a) The United Nations.
(b) The New York Post.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Globe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the North Carolina-based drugmaker that expressed interest in investing research into AIDS when confronted by Broder?

2. Who was the editor of Mandate in 1983?

3. How much money did GMHC net from a fundraiser disco party at the Paradise Garage, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 3?

4. What theorist and psychoanalyst referred to "paraphilia" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?

5. What was the name of Anita Bryant's anti-gay religious coalition?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does "LAV" refer to and why is it significant?

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

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

10. What does GRID mean and where did this term originate?

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