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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 drug was shown in studies to be nearly 100% effective in preventing PCP in at-risk populations in the mid-1970s?
(a) Pentamidine.
(b) Bactrim.
(c) AZT.
(d) DDI.

2. 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) Edmund Bergler.
(b) David Webster.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) Lawrence K. Altman.

3. Who was Martin Sheen's best friend and best man at his wedding who had died in 1987?
(a) John Douglas Crane.
(b) Scott Bernard.
(c) Michael Callen.
(d) Howard Moody.

4. When was Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment first published?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1993.

5. What state agency did Mel Rosen leave the GMHC to start?
(a) The AIDS Institute.
(b) PWA.
(c) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(d) ACT UP.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was AZT first developed?

3. Who was the attorney and T+D member who played a principal role in making the experimental anti-pneumonia drug trimetrexate available to the public?

4. How much had the mayor of New York City spend in the first 30 months of plague, according to the author in Part 2, Chapter 2?

5. What was the official count of those who died from AIDS in the United States by the end of 2012?

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