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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. Where did Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller spend a period of time after college?
(a) Paris.
(b) The military.
(c) The south of Mexico
(d) Havana.

2. What strain of sociopolitical thinking does Mailer chart through America in a speech in Chapter 1?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Trade protectionism.
(d) Fiscal conservatism.

3. Which social or literary figure calls Mailer in Chapter 2?
(a) Mitch Goodman.
(b) Jean Genet.
(c) Abbie Hoffman.
(d) Robert Lowell.

4. Where does Chapter 2 take place?
(a) A publishing house.
(b) Mailer's den.
(c) A New York bistro.
(d) An office on I Street.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is entertaining the audience when the speakers arrive?

2. What phrase does Mailer use to stand in for any sort of improvised speech?

3. According to the article in Chapter 1, why is Norman Mailer arrested?

4. In Chapter 6, how does the audience respond to Mailer's profane tirade?

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

(see the answer key)

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