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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author’s sources, how many patients visited Baltimore’s sexually transmitted disease clinics in the year from 1990-1991?
(a) 36,000.
(b) 62,000.
(c) 29,000.
(d) 10,000.

2. What researcher from Johns Hopkins University blames the syphilis epidemic in Baltimore on the breakdown of medical services in the city’s poorest neighborhoods, according to the author in Chapter 1?
(a) Darnell McGee.
(b) John Potterat.
(c) John Bartlett.
(d) John Zenilman.

3. What fashion designer was heard to be wearing Hush Puppies Shoes when they experienced a resurgence, according to the author in the Introduction?
(a) Jacques Herrer
(b) Micole Biancosino.
(c) Donna Karan.
(d) Isaac Mizrahi.

4. The author states in Chapter 1 that what year span saw the number of children in Baltimore born with syphilis spike considerably?
(a) 1989-1990.
(b) 1995-1996.
(c) 1992-1993.
(d) 1998-1999.

5. Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in what neighborhood of Queens, New York?
(a) Rockaway Beach.
(b) Greenpoint.
(c) Astoria.
(d) Kew Gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author consider to be the first of the three rules of epidemics?

2. What was the nickname of Darnell McGee?

3. Who was convicted of the murder of Kitty Genovese?

4. What two executives from Hush Puppies Shoes met a New York photographer who told them about the shoes’ resurgence, according to the author in the introduction?

5. Darnell McGee is known to have infected over how many people with HIV?

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