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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 TAG stand for?

2. What experimental compound did Mark Harrington learn researchers were testing in combination with AZT at the Primary Infection Committee meeting described in Part 4, Chapter 1?

3. What pharmaceutical company produced acyclovir?

4. Where was Ryan White violently hounded out of his middle school?

5. In Kramer's plan, who was the renegade surgeon general that would be put in charge of the Manhattan Project for AIDS?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How had the budget and circumstances of GMHC changed by 1987?

3. What is CD4?

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

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

6. What was the Lavender Hill Mob?

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

8. How does the author describe the emotional toll of the AIDS epidemic in the Epilogue?

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

10. What was the Actions committee of ACT UP responsible for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the reaction to the pamphlet How to Have Sex in an Epidemic. Who wrote this work? What did the book promote? Why did it meet criticism?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Michael Callen's role in the AIDS movement. How did Callen become involved in activist groups? What role did he play within those groups? How are the years leading up to Callen's death described?

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