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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 does Mailer liken himself to when he begins emceeing in Chapter 5?
(a) A surgeon tending a breech birth.
(b) A lawyer parsing words.
(c) A jazz musician riffing on a theme.
(d) A mason laying foundation.

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

3. At which hotel is Mailer staying?
(a) The Willard.
(b) The Watergate.
(c) The Marriot.
(d) The Hay-Adams.

4. Where does Chapter 2 take place?
(a) A New York bistro.
(b) Mailer's den.
(c) An office on I Street.
(d) A publishing house.

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 does Mailer dismiss de Grazia from the stage to begin emceeing the night in Chapter 5?

2. Whose flattery in Chapter 4 is Mailer suspicious of?

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

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

5. Where did Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller spend a period of time after college?

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