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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. What does AIDS stand for?

2. When did the author earn his college degree?

3. What does GMHC stand for?

4. How many patients did Dr. Robert Yarchoan enroll in a protocol that included intravenous infusions of AZT three times daily for two weeks in July of 1985?

5. What drug was capable of lowering the death rate of PCP to 50%, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. When was the first news of the plague that would later be called AIDS revealed in a noted media publication? What information was revealed?

2. What is GMHC and how was it founded?

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

4. How are Dr. Sonnabend's finances described in early 1983?

5. How is Dr. Robert Yarchoan's Phase I trial on AZT described?

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

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

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

9. How does David France describe his visit home in late 1983?

10. What does PCP refer to and what are its dangers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe author David France's work with different AIDS activist groups in the 1980s. With what organizations was France involved? What role did he play in the organization(s)? How did France's involvement affect him?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the AIDS Medical Foundation (amfAR). When and where was it established? By whom? What was its mission?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the drug AZT. When was AZT developed? What was it developed to treat? How does AZT work within the body to combat AIDS?

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