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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 sources are reviewed through much of Chapter 5?
(a) Dellinger's journals.
(b) Accounting statements.
(c) Newspaper articles.
(d) Mobilization Committee minutes.

2. To what does Mailer compare his hangover in Chapter 2?
(a) An atomic bomb.
(b) A garbage heap.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) Napalm.

3. What Communist leader's writings is Walter Teague teaching in Chapter 6?
(a) Lenin.
(b) Mao.
(c) Castro.
(d) Trotsky.

4. Who is Mailer's lawyer in Chapter 9?
(a) de Grazia.
(b) Goodman.
(c) Kube.
(d) Dellinger.

5. Which of the following men is not quoted by Mailer is having advocated sensory adjudication in Chapter 2?
(a) Thomas Aquinis.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) John O'Hara.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument does Mailer keep hearing as he marches to the Washington Memorial in Chapter 2?

2. What response does Coffin get to his turning in of the draft cards in Chapter 4?

3. What is the central action of the protest Mailer is invited to in Chapter 2?

4. Who is William Sloane Coffin?

5. What favor has Mailer recently done for Goodman?

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