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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is provided for the young men in Chapter 3's breakfast?
(a) Granola.
(b) Peanut butter and bread.
(c) Bananas and cantaloupe.
(d) Toasted English muffins.

3. Whose flattery in Chapter 4 is Mailer suspicious of?
(a) The host's.
(b) Lowell's.
(c) de Grazia's.
(d) Macdonald's.

4. What does Mailer state in Chapter 5 is the best course of action if you cannot please a liberal hostess?
(a) Slip out inconspiculously.
(b) Get her a gift basket.
(c) Apologize profusely.
(d) Wrong her completely.

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 2, what drug does Mailer repeatedly decry?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Mescaline.
(c) LSD.
(d) Heroin.

10. What is Mailer doing in Chapter 5 when a Time Magazine correspondent approaches him?
(a) Sleeping in the aisle.
(b) Vomiting out the window.
(c) Trying to punch Paul Goodman.
(d) Urinating on the floor.

11. In Chapter 6, how does the audience respond to Mailer's profane tirade?
(a) They give him a standing ovation.
(b) They boo him.
(c) They applaud politely.
(d) Halk of them walk out.

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

13. According to Mailer in Chapter 3, how did Robert Lowell avoid fighting in World War II?
(a) He has flat feet.
(b) He became a foreign correspondent for the AP.
(c) He was a conscientious objector.
(d) He worked in a munitions factory.

14. According to the article in Chapter 1, why is Norman Mailer arrested?
(a) He punches a presenter at an awards banquet.
(b) He is caught carrying a large bag of marijuana.
(c) He crosses a police line.
(d) He vomits on the Lincoln Memorial.

15. What crime would Mailer be guilty of in returning young men's draft cards during the march, according to the statement in Chapter 2?
(a) Theft of government property.
(b) Impeding an executive order.
(c) Aiding someone refusing the draft.
(d) Providing comfort to the enemies of the U.S.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mailer offend the hostess in Chapter 4?

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

3. Which of the following locations is not one that Mailer mentions rioting over the Vietnam issue in Chapter 2?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 1, to what does Mailer compare the atmosphere of the Hay-Adams breakfast crowd?

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

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