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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is scheduled to happen in Washington, DC, the day that Mailer arrives?
(a) A small concert on the Mall.
(b) A dinner at the Watergate.
(c) A march to the Capitol.
(d) A series of speeches at a theatre.

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

3. Where are the protest speakers going when they leave the part at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) A bar.
(b) The hotel.
(c) The Department of Justice.
(d) The theater.

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

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

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. Which of the following writers is not speaking at the protest?

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

4. How does Mailer offend the hostess in Chapter 4?

5. At which hotel is Mailer staying?

(see the answer key)

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