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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What other protest speaker is on the same plane as with Mailer in Chapter 3?
(a) Ed de Grazia.
(b) Dwight Macdonald.
(c) Paul Goodman.
(d) Robert Lowell.

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

3. Where does Chapter 2 take place?
(a) A publishing house.
(b) Mailer's den.
(c) An office on I Street.
(d) A New York bistro.

4. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer specifically not want done to him at the protest, should the police sweep in?
(a) He does not want to be maced.
(b) He does not want to be arrested.
(c) He does not want to be shot.
(d) He does not want to be struck.

5. What instrument does Mailer keep hearing as he marches to the Washington Memorial in Chapter 2?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Saxophone.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Snare drum.

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

7. On what day of the week is the march taking place?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Friday.

8. What does Goodman in Chapter 2 indicate may happen at the protest?
(a) They may egg the President's care.
(b) They may invade the Pentagon.
(c) Eugene McCarthy may speak.
(d) National press may cover the speeches.

9. Where are the protest speakers going when they leave the part at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) A bar.
(b) The hotel.
(c) The Department of Justice.
(d) The theater.

10. Who is entertaining the audience when the speakers arrive?
(a) An improv group.
(b) A folk music group.
(c) A poet.
(d) A troup of mimes.

11. Which Ivy League university did both Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller graduate from?
(a) Yale.
(b) Cornell.
(c) Columbia.
(d) Harvard.

12. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?
(a) Ben Franklin's.
(b) Lyndon Johnson's.
(c) Abbie Hoffman's.
(d) William Burroughs'.

13. Which of Mailer's books is he clinging onto at he enters the theatre in Chapter 5?
(a) The Naked and the Dead.
(b) Why Are We in Vietnam?
(c) The Executioner's Song.
(d) The White Negro.

14. What strain of sociopolitical thinking does Mailer chart through America in a speech in Chapter 1?
(a) Fascism.
(b) Fiscal conservatism.
(c) Trade protectionism.
(d) Communism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a style of dress that marchers wear in Chapter 2?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer agree to do the protest?

3. What is scheduled to happen in Washington, DC, the day that Mailer arrives?

4. In Chapter 4, what events does Mailer contend are always the same?

5. What is provided for the young men in Chapter 3's breakfast?

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