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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the founder of West End Records and the owner of the welfare hotel where the GMHC established as their first permanent home?
(a) Mel Cheren.
(b) Paul Popham.
(c) David Webster
(d) Sandor Ferenczi.

2. What new experimental therapy had Montagnier recently discovered in 1985 with his colleague Jean-Claude Chermann to have potential to curb reverse transcription?
(a) HPA-23.
(b) Pentamidine.
(c) Suramin.
(d) AZT.

3. What is the North Carolina-based drugmaker that expressed interest in investing research into AIDS when confronted by Broder?
(a) Roche Holding AG.
(b) Burroughs Wellcome.
(c) Merck.
(d) Pfizer.

4. Who was the Catholic Church's attorney who met with reporters in Judge Alvin Klein's office, as described in Part 2, Chapter 3?
(a) Chuck Ortleb.
(b) John Hale.
(c) Tim Sweeney.
(d) John O'Connor.

5. How much money did the lawyers for the 49 West 12 Tenants Corporation offer Sonnabend as restitution, plus legal costs?
(a) $24,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $50,000.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where was Dr. Barbara Starrett working as the director of lesbian and gay medical services when she encountered her first patient with signs of AIDS?

3. 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?

4. What play of Larry Kramer's opened at the Public Theater in 1985?

5. From where does the author say he was on a college sojourn when he visited New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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