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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. In Chapter 6, what does Mailer do after leaving the theatre?
(a) He goes to the hotel.
(b) He goes to another bar.
(c) He falls asleep in a doorway.
(d) He sleeps backstage.

2. According to Mailer in Chapter 5, how big is the praking lot tot he Pentagon?
(a) Slightly smaller than the central mall.
(b) As big as the Pentagon itself.
(c) The size of a grocery store's parking lot.
(d) The size of 5 football fields.

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

4. From what era of literature does Mailer saying he is drawing a convention in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The Victorian Era.
(b) The Modernist Era.
(c) The Neoclassical Era.
(d) The Romantic Era.

5. 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 appears to have been sexually violated.
(d) She is spit on by a group of soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the audience respond to Lowell's poem in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 6, how does the audience respond to Mailer's profane tirade?

3. What does Mailer tell Fontain about his arrest in Chapter 1?

4. How does Mailer respond to the band's ritual in Chapter 6?

5. Which music group is playing at the Pentagon in Chapter 5?

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