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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mailer's primary complaint about the performance space?
(a) There are no curtains on the stage.
(b) The sound system is bad.
(c) There is no ventilation.
(d) The seats are uncomfortable.

2. In Chapter 1, how long does Mailer suggest it will take to accurately understand the value of the March?
(a) 40-50 years.
(b) 5-10 years.
(c) 10-20 years.
(d) 100 years.

3. The opening of the novel is taken from an article in which publication?
(a) Cracked.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) Time Magazine.
(d) The New Yorker.

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

5. What Communist leader's writings is Walter Teague teaching in Chapter 6?
(a) Castro.
(b) Mao.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Trotsky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?

2. How long has the audience been waiting when the speakers arrive at the theatre in Chapter 5?

3. In Chapter 2, what word does Mailer want to tell Mitch Goodman to shove?

4. Which social or literary figure calls Mailer in Chapter 2?

5. What phrase does Mailer use to stand in for any sort of improvised speech?

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