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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Chapters 7-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is particularly brutal in Mailer's citing of an individual woman's beating in Chapter 8?
(a) She is hit in the face repeatedly with a baton.
(b) She is knocked unconscious with a single blow.
(c) She is spit on by a group of soldiers.
(d) She appears to have been sexually violated.

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

4. In Chapter 1, how long does Mailer suggest it will take to accurately understand the value of the March?
(a) 5-10 years.
(b) 10-20 years.
(c) 40-50 years.
(d) 100 years.

5. Which of the following writers is not speaking at the protest?
(a) Susan Sontag.
(b) Ed de Grazia.
(c) Dwight Macdonald.
(d) Robert Lowell.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what word does Mailer want to tell Mitch Goodman to shove?

2. How long has the audience been waiting when the speakers arrive at the theatre in Chapter 5?

3. How does Mailer dismiss de Grazia from the stage to begin emceeing the night in Chapter 5?

4. In Chapter 10, about how many protesters does Mailer say were arrested in Washington DC?

5. In Chapter 2, to whom does Mailer state he holds final allegiance?

(see the answer key)

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