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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 Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?
(a) He did not get very drunk.
(b) He became belligerent toward his fellow writers.
(c) He blacked out.
(d) He abstained from all alcohol.

2. Who is emceeing when Mailer arrives to the theatre in Chapter 5?
(a) Macdonald.
(b) de Grazia.
(c) Goodman.
(d) Lowell.

3. Why does Mailer's conversation with Macdonald become awkward in Chapter 4?
(a) Mailer is sleeping with Macdonald's wife.
(b) Macdonald got the post at the New Yorker Mailer wants.
(c) Mailer has recently discovered he's on the Pulitzer short list.
(d) Macdonald is reviewing Mailer's book.

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

5. Which of the following is not something Mailer is mentioned doing during his emceeing of Chapter 5?
(a) Sweating through his shirt.
(b) Cursing.
(c) Slurring his speech.
(d) Rambling incoherently.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who performs first in the event of Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 5, who attempts to silence de Grazia and Mailer as they squabble onstage?

3. What is scheduled to happen in Washington, DC, the day that Mailer arrives?

4. Whose flattery in Chapter 4 is Mailer suspicious of?

5. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer claim the young generation hates more than anything else?

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