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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The opening of the novel is taken from an article in which publication?
(a) Time Magazine.
(b) Cracked.
(c) The New Yorker.
(d) The Washington Post.

3. According to mailer in Chapter 1, which of the following qualities is definitely not necessary in a protagonist for the story of the March?
(a) He should be an organizer.
(b) He should be an observer.
(c) He should be a nonpartisan.
(d) He should have participated.

4. Which of the following is not a style of dress that marchers wear in Chapter 2?
(a) Sgt. Pepper uniforms.
(b) Eisenhower jackets.
(c) African dashikis.
(d) Turkish shepherd robes.

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

6. What is the central action of the protest Mailer is invited to in Chapter 2?
(a) The obstructing of traffic outside the White House.
(b) The returning of war medals.
(c) The turning in of draft cards.
(d) The barricading of the Department of Justice.

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

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

9. How does the audience respond to Lowell's poem in Chapter 6?
(a) They offer polite applause.
(b) They sit impassively.
(c) They give a standing ovation.
(d) They leave.

10. In Chapter 1, Mailer claims that America's New Left is drawing its political aesthetic from what country?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Russia.
(d) China.

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

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

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

14. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer claim the young generation hates more than anything else?
(a) Authority.
(b) War.
(c) Poverty.
(d) The free market.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, how does Mailer characterize Macdonald politically?

2. Where did Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller spend a period of time after college?

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

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

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

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