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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. Who intended to direct Kramer's recent stage hit to screen in 1987?

2. Who was the head of the research project that ran the Phase II trial that Bill Bahlman and Michael Becker participated in for Merck?

3. Who was the AIDS adviser for Congressman Henry Waxman?

4. Who was Martin Sheen's best friend and best man at his wedding who had died in 1987?

5. Who did President Bush open up a prime-time spot for a program about during the 1992 presidential elections?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Michael Petrelis?

2. What was the Lavender Hill Mob?

3. Why is The Making of the Atomic Bomb discussed in Part 4, Chapter 3?

4. Who is Mark Harrington?

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

6. What do KS lesions refer to?

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

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

9. What were the repercussions for Mark Harrington's article "Anatomy of a Disaster"?

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

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

Discuss the narrative style of How to Survive a Plague. From what perspective does David France relate the narrative? How would you characterize the author's writing style? How would this narrative differ if related from a different perspective?

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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