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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. Who arrives in in Chapter 4 as the protesters are forming ranks?
(a) Noam Chomsky.
(b) The Black Panthers.
(c) The police.
(d) Televisions crews.

2. What phrase does Mailer use to stand in for any sort of improvised speech?
(a) Holding court.
(b) Orating.
(c) Winging.
(d) Speaking-in-public.

3. In Chapter 3, what concern does does Goodman have about the route to the Pentagon?
(a) Law enforcement wants them to take the narrowest road.
(b) The route involves a numer of sudden turns.
(c) There are rumors of roadblocks on the road.
(d) Know one knows the route.

4. What response does Coffin get to his turning in of the draft cards in Chapter 4?
(a) He is refused by the Justice officials.
(b) He is swarmed by press.
(c) He is arrested.
(d) He gets into a heated argument with the Solicitor General.

5. Why does Mailer's conversation with Macdonald become awkward in Chapter 4?
(a) Macdonald got the post at the New Yorker Mailer wants.
(b) Mailer has recently discovered he's on the Pulitzer short list.
(c) Mailer is sleeping with Macdonald's wife.
(d) Macdonald is reviewing Mailer's book.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of overtones are part of Mailer's speech in Chapter 10?

2. What good news does John Boyle give Mailer in Chapter 3?

3. What sources are reviewed through much of Chapter 5?

4. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?

5. Which of the following ideas is not something that Mailer declares the young generation believes in more fervently than its forebears in Chapter 1?

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