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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is William Sloane Coffin?
(a) Editor of The New Republic.
(b) A local DC businessman.
(c) A former Air Force pilot.
(d) Chaplain at Yale.

2. What does Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?
(a) He became belligerent toward his fellow writers.
(b) He blacked out.
(c) He abstained from all alcohol.
(d) He did not get very drunk.

3. Which of the following locations is not one that Mailer mentions rioting over the Vietnam issue in Chapter 2?
(a) Read College.
(b) Boston Common.
(c) University of Wisconsin.
(d) Los Angeles, CA.

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 shot.
(c) He does not want to be arrested.
(d) He does not want to be struck.

5. What sport does Mailer liken the debate over Vietnam to in Chapter 5?
(a) Soccer.
(b) Football.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Bowling.

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

7. Which of the following is not one of the aspects of war that Mailer mentions being disagreeable in Chapter 2?
(a) Constant fatigue.
(b) Trudging through mud.
(c) Intestinal agitation.
(d) The omnipresence of death.

8. With whom does Mailer get into a shouting matching in Chapter 6?
(a) The hostess of the party.
(b) de Grazia.
(c) A heckler.
(d) The Time Magazine reporter.

9. In Chapter 2, to whom does Mailer state he holds final allegiance?
(a) Hippies.
(b) The government.
(c) Fellow artists.
(d) Himself.

10. Who speaks with Mitch Goodman at the Justice Department in Chapter 4?
(a) Dr. Ben Spock.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Noam Chomsky.
(d) Norman Mailer.

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

12. Which famous black leader's sister speaks in Chapter 3?
(a) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(b) Bobby Seale.
(c) Medger Evers.
(d) Malcolm X.

13. What vulgar story does Mailer tell the assembled audience in Chapter 6?
(a) A woman he slept with earlier in the week.
(b) How he ran into a dog on the highway yesterday.
(c) His struggles with intense constipation.
(d) His urination before the show.

14. What is significant about the way Lowell recites his poetry in Chapter 6?
(a) He does not use notes.
(b) He pauses for minutes at a time.
(c) He speaks incredibly quietly.
(d) He affects a British accent.

15. How many draft cards are turned in at Justice in Chapter 4?
(a) 994.
(b) 176.
(c) 320.
(d) 707.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following men is not quoted by Mailer is having advocated sensory adjudication in Chapter 2?

2. Which character in Chapter 3 is astounded by the fact that the papers were kind to Mailer's performance and not his?

3. In Chapter 3, what concern does does Goodman have about the route to the Pentagon?

4. In Chapter 3, Mailer states that left-wing groups should choose names similar to what?

5. What does Mailer liken himself to when he begins emceeing in Chapter 5?

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