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

2. Who is the UCLA specialist in reconstructing the immune system that contacted Mark Harrington following his Voice article?
(a) Dr. Steve Miles.
(b) Dr. John Ziegler.
(c) John Douglas Crane.
(d) Dr. Jim Eigo.

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

4. What term refers to an extreme or irrational fear of heights?
(a) Acrophobia.
(b) Heliophobia.
(c) Agoraphobia.
(d) Leukopenia.

5. How many ACT UP activists stood together on the NIH campus at their protest in May of 1990?
(a) 800.
(b) 1,500.
(c) 1,200.
(d) 900.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to represent the Women's AIDS Resource Network at the preliminary meeting for the Patient Constituency Working Group within ACTG?

2. What does OAR stand for?

3. Who was the New York health commissioner whose office was taken over by protesters who demanded his resignation?

4. Where was the biotech firm Imreg headquartered in 1988?

5. Who was Merck's spokesman when Bill Bahlman and Michael Becker participated in a Phase II efficacy trial for the company?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to Peter Staley's unemployment and eventual commitment to the cause for AIDS awareness?

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

3. What is zalcitabine?

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

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

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

7. Who is Andy Humm and what are his contributions to the cause?

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

9. What organizations were represented at the preliminary meeting for a formal Patient Constituency Working Group within the ACTG program in 1990?

10. What did Bob Rafsky do when he attended the campaign event for Clinton that is described in Part 4, Chapter 3?

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