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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 does Goodman in Chapter 2 indicate may happen at the protest?
(a) National press may cover the speeches.
(b) They may invade the Pentagon.
(c) They may egg the President's care.
(d) Eugene McCarthy may speak.

2. In Chapter 1, who does Mailer get into a cloyingly complimentary conversation?
(a) Dwight Macdonald.
(b) Paul Goodman.
(c) Robert Lowell.
(d) William Sloane Coffin.

3. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Mailer resolve to do?
(a) Stay sober for the march.
(b) Punch Mitch Goodman.
(c) Get arrested.
(d) Slip out of Washingotn in the afternoon.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller spend a period of time after college?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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