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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the New York Times science writer whom Dr. Friedman-Kien called to report on the sudden emergence of KS, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) Lawrence K. Altman.
(c) Edmund Bergler.
(d) David Webster.

2. Who oversaw the magazine Christopher Street in late 1983?
(a) Tom Steele.
(b) Margaret Heckler.
(c) Michael Callen.
(d) James Mason.

3. Of what New York City mayor did Kramer write, "With his silence on AIDS, the Mayor of New York is helping to kill us" (82)?
(a) Rudy Giuliani.
(b) Michael Bloomberg.
(c) Ed Koch.
(d) John Lindsay.

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

5. Where did Larry Kramer grow up?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) New York City.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Boston.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Dr. Joe Sonnabend from?

2. What drug was shown in studies to be nearly 100% effective in preventing PCP in at-risk populations in the mid-1970s?

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

4. What is the title of the thinly veiled roman a clef that Larry Kramer published in 1978?

5. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?

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