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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. Which Ivy League university did both Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller graduate from?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Cornell.

2. Who is entertaining the audience when the speakers arrive?
(a) A folk music group.
(b) An improv group.
(c) A poet.
(d) A troup of mimes.

3. In Chapter 6, what does Mailer do after leaving the theatre?
(a) He goes to another bar.
(b) He falls asleep in a doorway.
(c) He sleeps backstage.
(d) He goes to the hotel.

4. What vulgar story does Mailer tell the assembled audience in Chapter 6?
(a) His urination before the show.
(b) His struggles with intense constipation.
(c) How he ran into a dog on the highway yesterday.
(d) A woman he slept with earlier in the week.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 1, to what does Mailer compare the atmosphere of the Hay-Adams breakfast crowd?
(a) A class reunion.
(b) A press conference.
(c) A whorehouse.
(d) The running of the bulls,

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, how does the audience respond to Mailer's profane tirade?

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

3. Where are the protest speakers going when they leave the part at the end of Chapter 4?

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

5. Which famous black leader's sister speaks in Chapter 3?

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