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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 1-6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Mailer state in Chapter 5 is the best course of action if you cannot please a liberal hostess?
(a) Apologize profusely.
(b) Wrong her completely.
(c) Slip out inconspiculously.
(d) Get her a gift basket.
2. What does Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?
(a) He became belligerent toward his fellow writers.
(b) He abstained from all alcohol.
(c) He blacked out.
(d) He did not get very drunk.
3. What word best describes the collective mood of the protesters at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Violent.
(b) Lost.
(c) Impatient.
(d) Focused.
4. Which of the following is not a reason Mailer gives for a person's opposition to the War in Chapter 7?
(a) He has Communist sympathies.
(b) He is afraid of the draft.
(c) He believes it is an unjust war.
(d) He is a pacifist.
5. What does Mailer carry with him when he leaves the part in Chapter 4?
(a) A handful of crackers and cheese.
(b) A coffee cup of whiskey.
(c) A Havana cigar.
(d) A vase.
Short Answer Questions
1. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Mailer resolve to do?
2. Which of the following militant groups chooses to sit and hold their ground at the March?
3. How does the audience respond to Lowell's poem in Chapter 6?
4. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer determine is the goal of an invasion of the Pentagon?
5. What is the highest estimate given in Chapter 5 for the number of marchers who may attend?
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