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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Chapters 6-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is happening to Mailer at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) He is being arrested.
(b) He is lying on the ground after being maced.
(c) He is sleeping under a tree.
(d) He is giving a television interview.

2. What Communist leader's writings is Walter Teague teaching in Chapter 6?
(a) Castro.
(b) Trotsky.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Mao.

3. In Chapter 1, how long does Mailer suggest it will take to accurately understand the value of the March?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 5-10 years.
(c) 40-50 years.
(d) 10-20 years.

4. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer say he has sworn not to do, because it will support continued fighting Vietnam?
(a) Read the Washington Post.
(b) Turn in aluminum as certain stations.
(c) Pay a 10% increase in the income tax.
(d) Purchase Coors beer.

5. Who begins the informal meeting in Chapter 3?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) Paul Goodman.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Mitch Goodman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character in Chapter 3 is astounded by the fact that the papers were kind to Mailer's performance and not his?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer specifically not want done to him at the protest, should the police sweep in?

3. Which writer does Mailer think he is a stand-in for the young people in Chapter 7?

4. Who in Chapter 5, is completely enthralled by the band's activities?

5. Which of the following titles is not one that Mailer the narrator gives himself, Lowell, and Macdonald in Chapter 4?

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