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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 provided for the young men in Chapter 3's breakfast?
(a) Bananas and cantaloupe.
(b) Peanut butter and bread.
(c) Toasted English muffins.
(d) Granola.

2. After a term in which of Mailer's books has the band named itself?
(a) Why Are We in Vietnam?
(b) The White Negro.
(c) The Naked and the Dead.
(d) The Deer Park.

3. What does Mailer recall as he walks toward the Washington Monument in Chapter 2?
(a) The 1963 civil rights march.
(b) Losing his virginity.
(c) World War II.
(d) An afternoon in Madrid.

4. What good news does John Boyle give Mailer in Chapter 3?
(a) They will be fed soon.
(b) The march successfully invaded the Pentagon.
(c) They will probably be released.
(d) Lowell and Macdonald will be in the next group.

5. What word does Mailer use repeatedly in Chapter 1 to describe the effect of the Pentagon March?
(a) Galvanizing.
(b) Disappointing.
(c) Subtle.
(d) Ambiguous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Mailer's books is he clinging onto at he enters the theatre in Chapter 5?

2. Where does Chapter 2 take place?

3. What type of quasi-religious ceremony does the music group perform in Chapter 5?

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

5. In Chapter 2, who does Dellinger bring on a Project Manager for the March?

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