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

2. Who was the chairman of the GMHC's medical board that referred to "the Elizabeth Taylor model of behavior--serial monogamy" (53)?
(a) George de Stefano.
(b) Dan William.
(c) Richard Failla.
(d) Sandor Ferenczi.

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

4. When does the author describe visiting New York City for the first time in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1982.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom was Bob Rafsky a spokesman by day when he headed the Media Committee for ACT UP?

2. Trichosanthes kirilowii is a common landscaping plant that is also known as what?

3. How many people attended the first ACT UP protest on Wall Street?

4. When was AZT first developed?

5. Who was Eric Sawyer's lover who had recently died in 1987?

(see the answer key)

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