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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. When did Rob Rafsky contract HIV?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1990.

2. What pharmaceutical company produced acyclovir?
(a) Bayer.
(b) Praxis.
(c) Burroughs Wellcome.
(d) Merck.

3. Who was Stephen Roach's lover who accompanied him to the headquarters of the pharmaceutical company that produced AL721 in 1987?
(a) Howard Moody.
(b) John Douglas Crane.
(c) Tom Hannan.
(d) Scott Bernard.

4. Who was Merck's spokesman when Bill Bahlman and Michael Becker participated in a Phase II efficacy trial for the company?
(a) John Hale.
(b) Dr. Tony Fauci.
(c) Tim Sweeney.
(d) John Doorley.

5. Who sent his private jet to bring Ryan White's family to Disneyland?
(a) Dr. David Sencer.
(b) Elton John.
(c) Joseph Rafuse.
(d) Jim Eigo.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1990 there was one AIDS death in America in what span of time?

2. How old was Griffin Gold when he was hospitalized in July of 1988?

3. Who suggested shutting down Wall Street as a means of protest at the meeting for advocacy and protests described in Part 3, Chapter 1?

4. What is the drug Zorivax used to treat?

5. Who was Reagan's surgeon general who mailed an educational brochure on AIDS to every household in the country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is CD4?

2. How had the budget and circumstances of GMHC changed by 1987?

3. What is zalcitabine?

4. What is GLAAD? When and where was it founded?

5. What do KS lesions refer to?

6. What changed the front of the AIDS epidemice in 1996?

7. How does the author describe his experience with Dr. Metroka in Part 4, Chapter 3?

8. What is the CRI and where is it based?

9. What happened with the Merck trial that Bill Bahlman participated in, as described in Part 4, Chapter 3?

10. What was the Lavender Hill Mob?

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