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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what does Mailer compare his hangover in Chapter 2?
(a) An atomic bomb.
(b) A garbage heap.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) Napalm.

3. According to Mailer in Chapter 3, how did Robert Lowell avoid fighting in World War II?
(a) He was a conscientious objector.
(b) He became a foreign correspondent for the AP.
(c) He has flat feet.
(d) He worked in a munitions factory.

4. Why do Mailer, Macdonald and Lowell want to be arrested first on Saturday?
(a) They want to get out of the hot sun quickly.
(b) Only the first ones arrested will be photographed.
(c) They want to escape Mitch Goodman.
(d) They want to catch an evening flight back to New York.

5. Which of the following men is not quoted by Mailer is having advocated sensory adjudication in Chapter 2?
(a) Leo Tolstoy.
(b) John O'Hara.
(c) Thomas Aquinis.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what theatre is the presentation of Chapter 5 located?

2. What strain of sociopolitical thinking does Mailer chart through America in a speech in Chapter 1?

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

4. In Chapter 2, what drug does Mailer repeatedly decry?

5. What is Mailer doing in Chapter 5 when a Time Magazine correspondent approaches him?

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