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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. 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) DDI.
(c) Bactrim.
(d) Pentamidine.

2. What was New York City's preeminent cancer hospital that instituted a formal ban on treating victims of the gay cancer?
(a) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(b) Memorial Sloan Kettering.
(c) Columbia Medical Center.
(d) NYU Medical Center.

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

4. 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) Middlesex County.
(b) Kings County.
(c) Queens County.
(d) Westchester County.

5. Where was Alvin Friedman-Kien employed when Dr. Joyce Wallace contacted him regarding cases of Kaposi's sarcoma?
(a) Columbia Medical Center.
(b) Berkeley Medical Center.
(c) The St. Mark's Community Clinic.
(d) NYU Medical Center.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Richard Berkowitz earn a journalism degree?

2. What state agency did Mel Rosen leave the GMHC to start?

3. What does GMHC stand for?

4. Where did Peter Staley complete his coursework in political science and economics?

5. What are the two sorts of T-cells?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is GMHC and how was it founded?

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

3. Who was Michael Callen? What led him to his collaboration with Richard Berkowitz?

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

5. How are Dr. Sonnabend's finances described in early 1983?

6. Who is Richard Berkowitz and what led him to activism?

7. What is Bactrim and why was it used on patients with HIV/AIDS?

8. How is Dr. Robert Yarchoan's Phase I trial on AZT described?

9. What was Jane Teas the first to discover in AIDS research?

10. What does "LAV" refer to and why is it significant?

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