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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapters 3 - 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of AIDS cases were in the New York metropolitan area in February of 1983?
(a) 34.5%.
(b) 47.3%.
(c) 63.1%.
(d) 23.5%.

2. What does AIDS stand for?
(a) Applicable Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(b) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(c) Active Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
(d) Antiviral Immune Deficiency Syndrom.

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

4. When was suramin first pushed into human trials for AIDS?
(a) March 23, 1968.
(b) June 2, 1985.
(c) August 6, 1984.
(d) July 30, 1986.

5. 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) Christopher Street.
(d) Greenwich Street.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Lawrence Mass's lover who took him to the psychiatric ward at St. Vincents when Mass became suicidal?

2. Where did Larry Kramer grow up?

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

4. Where is the toilet in question that is described in the New York Times article "Rest Room Shut to Foreclose Use by Homosexuals" (14)?

5. For whom is the memorial service that is described in the Prologue?

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