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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What position did Tom Ho have at the Native when he took ill?
2. What does AIDS stand for?
3. What new experimental therapy had Montagnier recently discovered in 1985 with his colleague Jean-Claude Chermann to have potential to curb reverse transcription?
4. 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?
5. What was the author doing an internship for when he first visited New York City?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the author describe his findings when he looked up "Homosexuality" in his school library at 18?
2. What is HTLV-3 and who discovered it?
3. What theories arose regarding the 79 AIDS cases of individuals claiming not to be gay in 1982?
4. What is significant about John O'Connor's instillation as archbishop of New York in 1984?
5. Who was Michael Callen? What led him to his collaboration with Richard Berkowitz?
6. What is suramin and how did it come to be tested for the treatment of AIDS?
7. What does "LAV" refer to and why is it significant?
8. What was Jane Teas the first to discover in AIDS research?
9. What is Executive Order 50? When was it enacted and by whom?
10. How many people still die of AIDS every year around the globe (as of the book's publication in 2016)? Why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the effects of HIV/AIDS on the body. How does AIDS spread inside the body? What aspects of the body are impacted by AIDS? What are the main causes of death for AIDS patients?
Essay Topic 2
Describe author David France's work with different AIDS activist groups in the 1980s. With what organizations was France involved? What role did he play in the organization(s)? How did France's involvement affect him?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the Reagan administration's response to the AIDS crisis. How and when did Reagan publicly address the issue? What did he do to help progress in research and treatment? What amount did he budget for AIDS research?
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