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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. Who is William Sloane Coffin?
(a) Editor of The New Republic.
(b) A former Air Force pilot.
(c) A local DC businessman.
(d) Chaplain at Yale.

2. What does Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?
(a) He abstained from all alcohol.
(b) He blacked out.
(c) He did not get very drunk.
(d) He became belligerent toward his fellow writers.

3. According to mailer in Chapter 1, which of the following qualities is definitely not necessary in a protagonist for the story of the March?
(a) He should be an observer.
(b) He should have participated.
(c) He should be an organizer.
(d) He should be a nonpartisan.

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

5. With whom does Mailer get into a shouting matching in Chapter 6?
(a) de Grazia.
(b) The Time Magazine reporter.
(c) A heckler.
(d) The hostess of the party.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following locations is not one that Mailer mentions rioting over the Vietnam issue in Chapter 2?

2. Why does Mailer's conversation with Macdonald become awkward in Chapter 4?

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

4. What does Mailer forget to give back to the hostess when he leaves the party in Chapter 4?

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

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