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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapters 1 - 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the acronym ACT UP stand for?
(a) AIDS Community Toward Upper Power.
(b) AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
(c) AIDS Center for Treatment and Urgent Participation.
(d) AIDS Community to Urgent Preexamination.

3. 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?
(a) The West Village Men's Clinic.
(b) The Roosevelt Hospital.
(c) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(d) The NYU Medical Center.

4. Of what New York City mayor did Kramer write, "With his silence on AIDS, the Mayor of New York is helping to kill us" (82)?
(a) Michael Bloomberg.
(b) Ed Koch.
(c) John Lindsay.
(d) Rudy Giuliani.

5. Where is the toilet in question that is described in the New York Times article "Rest Room Shut to Foreclose Use by Homosexuals" (14)?
(a) Queens County.
(b) Middlesex County.
(c) Kings County.
(d) Westchester County.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was nominated as the leader of the newly formed GMHC?

3. Who intended to direct Kramer's recent stage hit to screen in 1987?

4. Where did Mathidle Krim grow up?

5. What pharmaceutical company produced acyclovir?

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