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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. In Chapter 5, who goes to sleep in the cell with Mailer?
(a) Walter Teague.
(b) The Hungarian freedom fighter.
(c) Robert Lowell.
(d) John Doyle.

2. In Chapter 2, what word does Mailer want to tell Mitch Goodman to shove?
(a) Peace.
(b) Solidarity.
(c) Resistance.
(d) Taste.

3. After a term in which of Mailer's books has the band named itself?
(a) The Naked and the Dead.
(b) Why Are We in Vietnam?
(c) The White Negro.
(d) The Deer Park.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 1, to what does Mailer compare the atmosphere of the Hay-Adams breakfast crowd?
(a) A press conference.
(b) A class reunion.
(c) A whorehouse.
(d) The running of the bulls,

5. What does Mailer liken himself to when he begins emceeing in Chapter 5?
(a) A mason laying foundation.
(b) A jazz musician riffing on a theme.
(c) A surgeon tending a breech birth.
(d) A lawyer parsing words.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The opening of the novel is taken from an article in which publication?

3. In Chapter 3, what concern does does Goodman have about the route to the Pentagon?

4. What does Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?

5. What word does Mailer use repeatedly in Chapter 1 to describe the effect of the Pentagon March?

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