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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who became the archbishop of New York in early 1984?
(a) Michael Callen.
(b) James Mason.
(c) John O'Connor.
(d) Margaret Heckler.

3. What was Gregg Bordowitz's profession?
(a) Experimental filmmaker.
(b) Bookstore clerk.
(c) Attorney in training.
(d) Stock bond trader.

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

5. Where did Peter Staley complete his coursework in political science and economics?
(a) Oberlin College.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Rutgers University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the Catholic Church's attorney who met with reporters in Judge Alvin Klein's office, as described in Part 2, Chapter 3?

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

3. What code name was AZT given when taken to trial for AIDS?

4. When was suramin first pushed into human trials for AIDS?

5. What disease was suramin being prescribed to treat in Africa when it was first put on trial in AIDS research?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is AZT and who developed it?

2. What is HTLV-3 and who discovered it?

3. What were the Stonewall riots and when did they occur?

4. How and where did Dr. Joe Sonnabend come across his first AIDS patients?

5. What is Executive Order 50? When was it enacted and by whom?

6. What was the New York Native? Who founded it?

7. What is suramin and how did it come to be tested for the treatment of AIDS?

8. When was the first news of the plague that would later be called AIDS revealed in a noted media publication? What information was revealed?

9. Whose funeral is described in the Prologue? What were this individual's major contributions to the cause, as discussed in this chapter?

10. What is Burroughs Wellcome and why is it significant?

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