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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the title of the thinly veiled roman a clef that Larry Kramer published in 1978?

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

4. How many cases of the gay cancer were on the CDC list by July of 1982?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is AZT and who developed it?

2. What book led Ortleb to believe the government was intentionally causing AIDS deaths? What was the subject of this book?

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

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

5. How and where did Dr. Joe Sonnabend come across his first AIDS patients?

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

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

8. How does the author describe his findings when he looked up "Homosexuality" in his school library at 18?

9. What is suramin and how did it come to be tested for the treatment of AIDS?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the group GMHC. When and where was the organization formed? What was the mission of the organization? How did that mission change over time?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the career and work of Dr. Joseph Sonnebend. Where is Sonnabend from? How did he first learn about the disease that would be called AIDS? What prompted him to research the virus?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss Mark Harrington's life, career, and work. What was Mark Harrington's profession? How did he become involved in activist groups? What role did he play in those groups?

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