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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) Cornell.
(b) Yale.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Harvard.

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

3. Who is emceeing when Mailer arrives to the theatre in Chapter 5?
(a) Goodman.
(b) Macdonald.
(c) Lowell.
(d) de Grazia.

4. What does Mailer forget to give back to the hostess when he leaves the party in Chapter 4?
(a) Her husband's necktie.
(b) Her housekey.
(c) A copy of his book.
(d) A cloth napkin.

5. According to Mailer in Chapter 5, how big is the praking lot tot he Pentagon?
(a) The size of 5 football fields.
(b) The size of a grocery store's parking lot.
(c) Slightly smaller than the central mall.
(d) As big as the Pentagon itself.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter 1, what is significant about Mailer's state at the time he is arrested?

5. Who arrives in in Chapter 4 as the protesters are forming ranks?

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