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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) Dwight Macdonald.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Paul Goodman.
(d) Ed de Grazia.

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

3. 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) Providing comfort to the enemies of the U.S.
(c) Impeding an executive order.
(d) Aiding someone refusing the draft.

4. Which of the following men is not quoted by Mailer is having advocated sensory adjudication in Chapter 2?
(a) John O'Hara.
(b) Leo Tolstoy.
(c) Thomas Aquinis.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

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

6. At which hotel is Mailer staying?
(a) The Marriot.
(b) The Watergate.
(c) The Hay-Adams.
(d) The Willard.

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

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

9. 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 did not get very drunk.
(d) He abstained from all alcohol.

10. 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 turning in of draft cards.
(c) The barricading of the Department of Justice.
(d) The returning of war medals.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Mailer use repeatedly in Chapter 1 to describe the effect of the Pentagon March?

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

3. Why does Mailer's conversation with Macdonald become awkward in Chapter 4?

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

5. What is significant about the way Lowell recites his poetry in Chapter 6?

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