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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. What strain of sociopolitical thinking does Mailer chart through America in a speech in Chapter 1?
(a) Communism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Trade protectionism.
(d) Fiscal conservatism.

2. Which two gods does Mailer insist the war supports in Chapter 7?
(a) Technology and commercialism.
(b) Money and power.
(c) Marx and Smith.
(d) Bloodshed and madness.

3. Who speaks with Mitch Goodman at the Justice Department in Chapter 4?
(a) Noam Chomsky.
(b) Dr. Ben Spock.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Robert Lowell.

4. Who arrives in in Chapter 4 as the protesters are forming ranks?
(a) Televisions crews.
(b) The Black Panthers.
(c) The police.
(d) Noam Chomsky.

5. Where are the protest speakers going when they leave the part at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) A bar.
(b) The hotel.
(c) The theater.
(d) The Department of Justice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Next to what famous left icon's bunk does Mailer lay down at the end of Chapter 6?

2. Counting his current one, how many wives has Mailer had?

3. What does Mailer state in Chapter 5 is the best course of action if you cannot please a liberal hostess?

4. What word does Mailer use repeatedly in Chapter 1 to describe the effect of the Pentagon March?

5. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?

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