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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. What does Goodman in Chapter 2 indicate may happen at the protest?
(a) They may invade the Pentagon.
(b) Eugene McCarthy may speak.
(c) National press may cover the speeches.
(d) They may egg the President's care.

2. Who is William Sloane Coffin?
(a) A former Air Force pilot.
(b) A local DC businessman.
(c) Chaplain at Yale.
(d) Editor of The New Republic.

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

4. On what day of the week is the march taking place?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Sunday.

5. Which of Mailer's books is he clinging onto at he enters the theatre in Chapter 5?
(a) The Executioner's Song.
(b) Why Are We in Vietnam?
(c) The Naked and the Dead.
(d) The White Negro.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Mailer certain the MP in Chapter 6 is not going to hit him?

2. What vulgar story does Mailer tell the assembled audience in Chapter 6?

3. Who speaks with Mitch Goodman at the Justice Department in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 5, who attempts to silence de Grazia and Mailer as they squabble onstage?

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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