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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the raw materials called that cancer cells use to make new DNA necessary for rapid cell divisions?
(a) Pentamidines.
(b) Thymidine.
(c) Bactrims.
(d) Nucleosides.

2. How much money did GMHC net from a fundraiser disco party at the Paradise Garage, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) $32,086.
(b) $23,453.
(c) $45,009.
(d) $12,423.

3. Where was Tom Ho taken when he became ill?
(a) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(b) Lenox Hill Hospital.
(c) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(d) Berkeley Medical Center.

4. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?
(a) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(b) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(c) Columbia Medical Center.
(d) NYU Medical Center.

5. What is the second of the four criteria for "Koch's Postulates" that is described in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Must be isolated from the carrier and must be able to crow in pure culture.
(b) Must be capable of reproduction on its own.
(c) Must be capable of reproduction using human cells.
(d) Must be present in everyone suffering from the disease but in no one who is healthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggested shutting down Wall Street as a means of protest at the meeting for advocacy and protests described in Part 3, Chapter 1?

2. Where did Edmund White live and write in 1987?

3. What is the first of the four criteria for "Koch's Postulates" that is described in Part 2, Chapter 2?

4. How many cases of the gay cancer were on the CDC list by July of 1982?

5. What state agency did Mel Rosen leave the GMHC to start?

(see the answer key)

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