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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 scheduled to happen in Washington, DC, the day that Mailer arrives?
(a) A dinner at the Watergate.
(b) A march to the Capitol.
(c) A series of speeches at a theatre.
(d) A small concert on the Mall.
2. What does Mailer liken himself to when he begins emceeing in Chapter 5?
(a) A jazz musician riffing on a theme.
(b) A surgeon tending a breech birth.
(c) A lawyer parsing words.
(d) A mason laying foundation.
3. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Mailer resolve to do?
(a) Slip out of Washingotn in the afternoon.
(b) Get arrested.
(c) Punch Mitch Goodman.
(d) Stay sober for the march.
4. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer specifically not want done to him at the protest, should the police sweep in?
(a) He does not want to be shot.
(b) He does not want to be maced.
(c) He does not want to be arrested.
(d) He does not want to be struck.
5. Which character in Chapter 3 is astounded by the fact that the papers were kind to Mailer's performance and not his?
(a) Ed de Grazia.
(b) Dwight Macdonald.
(c) Paul Goodman.
(d) Robert Lowell.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 4, what events does Mailer contend are always the same?
2. Where are the protest speakers going when they leave the part at the end of Chapter 4?
3. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?
4. Which Ivy League university did both Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller graduate from?
5. In Chapter 5, who attempts to silence de Grazia and Mailer as they squabble onstage?
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