1. In Chapter 5, what is Mailer's mind racing to figure out?
(a) Where the best shade is.
(b) WHich set of camera's is CBS.
(c) The best way to get arrested.
(d) What Mitch Goodman is.

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

3. What is scheduled to happen in Washington, DC, the day that Mailer arrives?
(a) A series of speeches at a theatre.
(b) A small concert on the Mall.
(c) A march to the Capitol.
(d) A dinner at the Watergate.

4. How does the audience respond to Lowell's poem in Chapter 6?
(a) They offer polite applause.
(b) They sit impassively.
(c) They give a standing ovation.
(d) They leave.

5. In Chapter 1, who does Mailer get into a cloyingly complimentary conversation?
(a) Dwight Macdonald.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Paul Goodman.
(d) William Sloane Coffin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following ideas is not something that Mailer declares the young generation believes in more fervently than its forebears in Chapter 1?

2. What reason does the judge give for giving Mailer a stiffer sentence in Chapter 9?

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

4. What other protest speaker is on the same plane as with Mailer in Chapter 3?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 4, how long has the crown been waiting to march?

(see the answer key)

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