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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapters 1-3.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What phrase does Mailer use to stand in for any sort of improvised speech?
(a) Holding court.
(b) Orating.
(c) Speaking-in-public.
(d) Winging.
2. What does Mailer liken himself to when he begins emceeing in Chapter 5?
(a) A mason laying foundation.
(b) A jazz musician riffing on a theme.
(c) A lawyer parsing words.
(d) A surgeon tending a breech birth.
3. Who speaks with Mitch Goodman at the Justice Department in Chapter 4?
(a) Dr. Ben Spock.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Noam Chomsky.
4. What does Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?
(a) He abstained from all alcohol.
(b) He became belligerent toward his fellow writers.
(c) He blacked out.
(d) He did not get very drunk.
5. On what day of the week is the march taking place?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Wednesday.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 3, Mailer states that left-wing groups should choose names similar to what?
2. At the beginning of Chapter 1, to what does Mailer compare the atmosphere of the Hay-Adams breakfast crowd?
3. What other protest speaker is on the same plane as with Mailer in Chapter 3?
4. At which hotel is Mailer staying?
5. According to Mailer in Chapter 3, how did Robert Lowell avoid fighting in World War II?
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