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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What theorist and psychoanalyst referred to "paraphilia" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?
(a) Sandor Ferenczi.
(b) Gregg Bordowitz.
(c) Alick Isaacs.
(d) David Webster.

3. 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) Twenty.
(d) Two.

4. What disease was suramin being prescribed to treat in Africa when it was first put on trial in AIDS research?
(a) Gonorrhea.
(b) Syphilis.
(c) Emphysema.
(d) River blindness.

5. What was the name of Anita Bryant's anti-gay religious coalition?
(a) The AIDS Institute.
(b) GMHC.
(c) ACT UP.
(d) Save Our Children.

6. Where was Jane Teas working as a young pathobiologist in 1984?
(a) MIT.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Harvard University.

7. Who was the editor of Mandate in 1983?
(a) Richard Failla.
(b) George de Stefano.
(c) Sandor Ferenczi.
(d) Sandor Ferenczi.

8. 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.

9. What drug was capable of lowering the death rate of PCP to 50%, according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) DDI.
(b) Bactrim.
(c) Pentamidine.
(d) AZT.

10. Who was the first of Dr. Yarchoan's patients to be treated with AZT in clinical trial in July of 1985?
(a) Tim Sweeney.
(b) Joseph Rafuse.
(c) John Hale.
(d) John O'Connor.

11. What is the second of the four criteria for "Koch's Postulates" that is described in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) Must be present in everyone suffering from the disease but in no one who is healthy.
(b) Must be capable of reproduction on its own.
(c) Must be capable of reproduction using human cells.
(d) Must be isolated from the carrier and must be able to crow in pure culture.

12. How much money did Rosen receive for the AIDS Institute on February 27, 1985 from Albany for education money?
(a) $400,000.
(b) $95,000.
(c) $150,000.
(d) $40,000.

13. For whom is the memorial service that is described in the Prologue?
(a) Gregg Bordowitz.
(b) Spencer Cox.
(c) David Webster.
(d) Dr. Stanley F. Yolles.

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

15. How many AIDS cases were reported by February 20, 1985, with half of them dead?
(a) 8,597.
(b) 1,367.
(c) 659.
(d) 5,231.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who became the archbishop of New York in early 1984?

3. Who was the chairman of the GMHC's medical board that referred to "the Elizabeth Taylor model of behavior--serial monogamy" (53)?

4. Where is Dr. Joe Sonnabend from?

5. Where did Mathidle Krim grow up?

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