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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 1, what does Mailer determine is the goal of an invasion of the Pentagon?
(a) To provide Paul Goodman a platform to self-promote.
(b) To achieve publicity for the next day's events.
(c) To wound the American military symbolically.
(d) To obstruct the daily activity of the Pentagon.

2. What is Mailer worried about missing at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Lowell's party.
(b) His medication time.
(c) Arraignment.
(d) Breakfast.

3. In Chapter 1, who does Mailer get into a cloyingly complimentary conversation?
(a) Paul Goodman.
(b) William Sloane Coffin.
(c) Dwight Macdonald.
(d) Robert Lowell.

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

5. What state is the MP from?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Minnesota.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What nationality is the "Nazi" who antagonizes Mailer in Chapter 2?

3. What does Mailer carry with him when he leaves the part in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer claim the young generation hates more than anything else?

5. To what does Mailer compare his hangover in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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