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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. Who is entertaining the audience when the speakers arrive?
(a) A troup of mimes.
(b) A poet.
(c) An improv group.
(d) A folk music group.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, who attempts to silence de Grazia and Mailer as they squabble onstage?

2. Where do Lowell, Mailer, and Macdonald go after the card return in Chapter 4?

3. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer say he has sworn not to do, because it will support continued fighting Vietnam?

4. What does Mailer state in Chapter 5 is the best course of action if you cannot please a liberal hostess?

5. How many draft cards are turned in at Justice in Chapter 4?

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