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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose flattery in Chapter 4 is Mailer suspicious of?
(a) The host's.
(b) Macdonald's.
(c) Lowell's.
(d) de Grazia's.

2. Why do Mailer, Macdonald and Lowell want to be arrested first on Saturday?
(a) They want to catch an evening flight back to New York.
(b) They want to get out of the hot sun quickly.
(c) They want to escape Mitch Goodman.
(d) Only the first ones arrested will be photographed.

3. Which of Mailer's writer friends is present in the Volkswagen with him in Chapter 2?
(a) Paul Goodman.
(b) Dwight Macdonald.
(c) None of them.
(d) Robert Lowell.

4. What is the central action of the protest Mailer is invited to in Chapter 2?
(a) The obstructing of traffic outside the White House.
(b) The barricading of the Department of Justice.
(c) The returning of war medals.
(d) The turning in of draft cards.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is significant about the way Lowell recites his poetry in Chapter 6?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 1, to what does Mailer compare the atmosphere of the Hay-Adams breakfast crowd?

4. What is Donald Kalish's profession?

5. What does Mailer forget to give back to the hostess when he leaves the party in Chapter 4?

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