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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is the former prosecutor who advocated for the legal needs of the sick at the newly founded GMHC?
(a) Chuck Ortleb.
(b) Sandor Ferenczi.
(c) Richard Failla.
(d) George de Stefano.
2. What was the name of Anita Bryant's anti-gay religious coalition?
(a) Save Our Children.
(b) GMHC.
(c) ACT UP.
(d) The AIDS Institute.
3. How many chapters did the ACT UP organization count at its peak?
(a) 148.
(b) 119.
(c) 212.
(d) 112.
4. Before the spread of AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma struck how many Americans out of every three million, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) Ten.
(b) Six.
(c) Two.
(d) Twenty.
5. When was Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment first published?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1985.
6. How much money did GMHC receive from state AIDS contracts in Albany for "public information" on February 27, 1985?
(a) $183,000.
(b) $67,034.
(c) $95,000.
(d) $231,000.
7. What does GRID stand for?
(a) Gay-related immune deficiency.
(b) Gay-related internal destruction.
(c) Gay retroviral immune deficiency.
(d) Gamma-ray intensity diagonistics.
8. In what year is the memorial described in the Prologue?
(a) 2011.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2013.
(d) 2012.
9. What word from the text in Part 1, Chapter 1 refers to an outcast from society?
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Pariah.
(c) Demigogue.
(d) Lemurian.
10. Who was Lawrence Mass's lover who took him to the psychiatric ward at St. Vincents when Mass became suicidal?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) Arnie Kantrowitz.
(c) Richard Failla.
(d) George de Stefano.
11. What is the name of the rock band that Michael Callen formed after being diagnosed?
(a) Black Dawn.
(b) Faggots.
(c) Lowlife.
(d) New Wave.
12. What percentage of AIDS cases were in the New York metropolitan area in February of 1983?
(a) 23.5%.
(b) 34.5%.
(c) 63.1%.
(d) 47.3%.
13. What drug was capable of lowering the death rate of PCP to 50%, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) AZT.
(b) Pentamidine.
(c) DDI.
(d) Bactrim.
14. Who was the New York City health commissioner in March of 1985?
(a) Dr. Michael Callen.
(b) Dr. Richard Failla.
(c) Dr. David Sencer.
(d) Dr. James Mason.
15. What was the official count of those who died from AIDS in the United States by the end of 2012?
(a) 358,659.
(b) 658,507.
(c) 238,336.
(d) 751,326.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was the director of the U.S. Public Health Service that wrote, "With broadened parental understanding and more scientific research, hopefully, the chances that anyone's child will become victim of homosexuality will eventually decrease" (16)?
2. What was Gregg Bordowitz's profession?
3. 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?
4. When was AZT first developed?
5. What was the total death tally of AIDS patients in February of 1983?
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