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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. Where did Edmund White live and write in 1987?

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

3. What term refers to an extreme or irrational fear of heights?

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

5. Who from the pharmaceutical industry showed Stephen Roach how to make AL721?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the fall of the Berlin Wall signify for AIDS activists?

3. What is CD8?

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

5. What do KS lesions refer to?

6. What is CD4?

7. What was the Silence = Death Project?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Reagan administration's response to the AIDS crisis. How and when did Reagan publicly address the issue? What did he do to help progress in research and treatment? What amount did he budget for AIDS research?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the Clinton administration's response to the AIDS crisis. What measures did Bill Clinton enact to promote research and treatment for the disease? How did Clinton restructure the federal AIDS commission?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the career and work of Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien. What is Friedman-Kien's specialization? How did he first encounter patients who had what would be known as AIDS? What treatments did he attempt on these patients?

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