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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 does CRI stand for?

2. Where did Dr. Sonnaben manage to get a hospital bed for Griffin Gold in July of 1988?

3. What experimental compound did Mark Harrington learn researchers were testing in combination with AZT at the Primary Infection Committee meeting described in Part 4, Chapter 1?

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

5. In Kramer's plan, who was the renegade surgeon general that would be put in charge of the Manhattan Project for AIDS?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Silence = Death Project?

2. What is CD8?

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

4. What is CD4?

5. Who is Michael Petrelis?

6. What organizations were represented at the preliminary meeting for a formal Patient Constituency Working Group within the ACTG program in 1990?

7. What do KS lesions refer to?

8. What is The Celluloid Closet about and when was it produced?

9. What was the Actions committee of ACT UP responsible for?

10. Who is Bob Rafsky?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss the reaction to the pamphlet How to Have Sex in an Epidemic. Who wrote this work? What did the book promote? Why did it meet criticism?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the AIDS Medical Foundation (amfAR). When and where was it established? By whom? What was its mission?

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