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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose flattery in Chapter 4 is Mailer suspicious of?
(a) de Grazia's.
(b) Macdonald's.
(c) The host's.
(d) Lowell's.

2. To what does Mailer compare the MP's on the bus in Chapter 4?
(a) Substitute teachers.
(b) Keystone cops.
(c) Parents.
(d) Referees.

3. Why do Mailer, Macdonald and Lowell want to be arrested first on Saturday?
(a) They want to get out of the hot sun quickly.
(b) They want to catch an evening flight back to New York.
(c) Only the first ones arrested will be photographed.
(d) They want to escape Mitch Goodman.

4. About what do the arrested marchers speculate at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) Whether they will have to spend the night in jail.
(b) If they will have to serve time.
(c) If Robert Lowell was arrested.
(d) What the coverage of the march will highlight.

5. Which of the following militant groups chooses to sit and hold their ground at the March?
(a) The Black Panthers.
(b) SDS.
(c) The Weathermen.
(d) The Symbionese Liberation Army.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mailer dismiss de Grazia from the stage to begin emceeing the night in Chapter 5?

2. What is Mailer's primary complaint about the performance space?

3. What type of overtones are part of Mailer's speech in Chapter 10?

4. In Chapter 6, what does Mailer do after leaving the theatre?

5. Who speaks with Mitch Goodman at the Justice Department in Chapter 4?

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