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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What street in New York City does the author describe as "the mountaintop of gay life" in Part 1, Chapter 1 (13)?
(a) Broadway.
(b) Lafayette Street.
(c) Greenwich Street.
(d) Christopher Street.

2. What was the official count of those who died from AIDS in the United States by the end of 2012?
(a) 238,336.
(b) 658,507.
(c) 358,659.
(d) 751,326.

3. Before the spread of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma struck how many Americans out of every three million, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Two.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Six.
(d) Ten.

4. What drug was capable of lowering the death rate of PCP to 50%, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) AZT.
(b) Bactrim.
(c) DDI.
(d) Pentamidine.

5. Who was the discoverer of interferon that Dr. Joe Sonnabend studied with?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) Alick Isaacs.
(c) Lawrence K. Altman.
(d) Edmund Bergler.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the author earn his college degree?

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

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

4. Where did Mathidle Krim grow up?

5. In what year is the memorial described in the Prologue?

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