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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Mailer take from de Grazia in Chapter 4?
(a) The telling of a story from their time in Madrid.
(b) The emcee role for the evening.
(c) His drink.
(d) The key to his hotel room.

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

4. Who begins the informal meeting in Chapter 3?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) Paul Goodman.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Mitch Goodman.

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

6. What does Mailer liken himself to when he begins emceeing in Chapter 5?
(a) A surgeon tending a breech birth.
(b) A mason laying foundation.
(c) A lawyer parsing words.
(d) A jazz musician riffing on a theme.

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

8. How long has the audience been waiting when the speakers arrive at the theatre in Chapter 5?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 30 minutes.
(c) 5 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

9. At what theatre is the presentation of Chapter 5 located?
(a) The Ambassador.
(b) The National Theatre.
(c) The Arena.
(d) Ford's Theatre.

10. Which of the following ideas is not something that Mailer declares the young generation believes in more fervently than its forebears in Chapter 1?
(a) Technology.
(b) Hegelian dialectics.
(c) Witchcraft.
(d) Tribalism.

11. What does Mailer forget to give back to the hostess when he leaves the party in Chapter 4?
(a) A cloth napkin.
(b) A copy of his book.
(c) Her husband's necktie.
(d) Her housekey.

12. Where do Lowell, Mailer, and Macdonald go after the card return in Chapter 4?
(a) The hotel.
(b) A bar.
(c) The Pentagon.
(d) A hot-dog stand.

13. To what does Mailer compare his hangover in Chapter 2?
(a) Napalm.
(b) An atomic bomb.
(c) An earthquake.
(d) A garbage heap.

14. What did the performance space in this section used to be used for?
(a) A movie theater.
(b) A vaudville house.
(c) A school auditorium.
(d) A church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other protest speaker is on the same plane as with Mailer in Chapter 3?

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

3. In Chapter 1, who does Mailer get into a cloyingly complimentary conversation?

4. What is the central action of the protest Mailer is invited to in Chapter 2?

5. Which of Mailer's books is he clinging onto at he enters the theatre in Chapter 5?

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