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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. Who was Eric Sawyer's lover who had recently died in 1987?
(a) Howard Moody.
(b) John Douglas Crane.
(c) Scott Bernard.
(d) Michael Callen.

2. Who intended to direct Kramer's recent stage hit to screen in 1987?
(a) Woody Allen.
(b) Barbara Streisand.
(c) Joan Crawford.
(d) Helen Hayes.

3. Who was Martin Sheen's best friend and best man at his wedding who had died in 1987?
(a) Michael Callen.
(b) Scott Bernard.
(c) Howard Moody.
(d) John Douglas Crane.

4. Who is the UCLA specialist in reconstructing the immune system that contacted Mark Harrington following his Voice article?
(a) John Douglas Crane.
(b) Dr. Jim Eigo.
(c) Dr. Steve Miles.
(d) Dr. John Ziegler.

5. Where did Mark Harrington study art, literature, and history?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Columbia University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Princeton University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Doug Gould adopted?

2. Who was the Montgomery, Alabama mayor who warned in a front-page Montgomery Advertiser story that he had zero sympathy for AIDS victims?

3. What had ACTG's budget expanded to in 1990?

4. Above what park did Larry Kramer have a one-bedroom apartment in 1987, according to the author in Part 3, Chapter 1?

5. Who was Merck's spokesman when Bill Bahlman and Michael Becker participated in a Phase II efficacy trial for the company?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Michael Petrelis?

2. What is GLAAD? When and where was it founded?

3. What were the repercussions for Mark Harrington's article "Anatomy of a Disaster"?

4. How does the author describe the emotional toll of the AIDS epidemic in the Epilogue?

5. Why is The Making of the Atomic Bomb discussed in Part 4, Chapter 3?

6. What is CD8?

7. When and where was The Normal Heart produced? What is it about?

8. What changed the front of the AIDS epidemice in 1996?

9. What is the CRI and where is it based?

10. What led to Peter Staley's unemployment and eventual commitment to the cause for AIDS awareness?

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