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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who in Chapter 5, is completely enthralled by the band's activities?
(a) Macdonald.
(b) Lowell.
(c) Mailer.
(d) Dellinger.

2. Which character in Chapter 3 is astounded by the fact that the papers were kind to Mailer's performance and not his?
(a) Paul Goodman.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Dwight Macdonald.
(d) Ed de Grazia.

3. What phrase does Mailer use to stand in for any sort of improvised speech?
(a) Holding court.
(b) Orating.
(c) Winging.
(d) Speaking-in-public.

4. 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 escape Mitch Goodman.
(c) Only the first ones arrested will be photographed.
(d) They want to catch an evening flight back to New York.

5. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer determine is the goal of an invasion of the Pentagon?
(a) To obstruct the daily activity of the Pentagon.
(b) To achieve publicity for the next day's events.
(c) To provide Paul Goodman a platform to self-promote.
(d) To wound the American military symbolically.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer claim the young generation hates more than anything else?

2. What is happening to Mailer at the end of Chapter 6?

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

4. What word best describes the collective mood of the protesters at the beginning of Chapter 4?

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

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