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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. On what day of the week is the march taking place?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Friday.

2. What did the performance space in this section used to be used for?
(a) A movie theater.
(b) A vaudville house.
(c) A church.
(d) A school auditorium.

3. What favor has Mailer recently done for Goodman?
(a) He became Goodman's son's godfather.
(b) He recommended him for a Times op-ed.
(c) He wrote a blurb for his book.
(d) He praised him on the Dick Cavett Show.

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

5. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?
(a) William Burroughs'.
(b) Ben Franklin's.
(c) Lyndon Johnson's.
(d) Abbie Hoffman's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the protest speakers going when they leave the part at the end of Chapter 4?

2. What is Mailer's primary complaint about the performance space?

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

4. Which of the following writers is not speaking at the protest?

5. In Chapter 2, to whom does Mailer state he holds final allegiance?

(see the answer key)

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