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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 doing in Chapter 5 when a Time Magazine correspondent approaches him?
(a) Vomiting out the window.
(b) Urinating on the floor.
(c) Trying to punch Paul Goodman.
(d) Sleeping in the aisle.

2. Which of the following ideas is not something that Mailer declares the young generation believes in more fervently than its forebears in Chapter 1?
(a) Tribalism.
(b) Technology.
(c) Witchcraft.
(d) Hegelian dialectics.

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

4. Which famous black leader's sister speaks in Chapter 3?
(a) Medger Evers.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) Malcolm X.
(d) Bobby Seale.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?

2. What is significant about the way Lowell recites his poetry in Chapter 6?

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

4. Which character in Chapter 3 is astounded by the fact that the papers were kind to Mailer's performance and not his?

5. What is the central action of the protest Mailer is invited to in Chapter 2?

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