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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do OIs refer to?
(a) Opportunistic infections.
(b) Ordinary infections.
(c) Outside infiections.
(d) Obsolete infections.

2. When did the author earn his college degree?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1981.

3. Where did Mathidle Krim grow up?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Geneva.
(d) Zurich.

4. 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 NYU Medical Center.
(c) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(d) The Roosevelt Hospital.

5. The two-step procedure for blood testing for HTLV-3/LAV used a method called ELISA and another called what?
(a) Level One.
(b) Red Green.
(c) Western Blot.
(d) Set values.

6. What was the total death tally of AIDS patients in February of 1983?
(a) 534.
(b) 612.
(c) 332.
(d) 418.

7. 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?
(a) $35,000.
(b) $124,000.
(c) $24,500.
(d) $42,000.

8. 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.

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

10. Where did Lawrence Mass work full-time when he was on the board of the GMHC?
(a) A stock brokerage firm.
(b) A publishing company.
(c) A methadone clinic.
(d) A theater company.

11. What psychoanalyst described "oral regression" as a cause for "sociopathic personality disturbance," according to the author in Part 1, Chapter 1 (16)?
(a) David Webster.
(b) Gregg Bordowitz.
(c) Edmund Bergler.
(d) Alick Isaacs.

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

13. From where were half of the professed heterosexual men with GRID recent immigrants in 1982?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Haiti.
(c) Nigeria.
(d) Sudan.

14. Who was the founder of West End Records and the owner of the welfare hotel where the GMHC established as their first permanent home?
(a) Mel Cheren.
(b) Sandor Ferenczi.
(c) David Webster
(d) Paul Popham.

15. What does GMHC stand for?
(a) Gay men's honor code.
(b) Gay men's health crisis.
(c) Gay men's health community.
(d) Gay men's healing center.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first of Dr. Yarchoan's patients to be treated with AZT in clinical trial in July of 1985?

2. Who had just assumed the position as the CDC director in March of 1985?

3. What is the North Carolina-based drugmaker that expressed interest in investing research into AIDS when confronted by Broder?

4. What are the raw materials called that cancer cells use to make new DNA necessary for rapid cell divisions?

5. What was Gregg Bordowitz's profession?

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