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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mailer's conversation with Macdonald become awkward in Chapter 4?
(a) Mailer is sleeping with Macdonald's wife.
(b) Mailer has recently discovered he's on the Pulitzer short list.
(c) Macdonald got the post at the New Yorker Mailer wants.
(d) Macdonald is reviewing Mailer's book.

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

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

4. What is Mailer's primary complaint about the performance space?
(a) The sound system is bad.
(b) There is no ventilation.
(c) There are no curtains on the stage.
(d) The seats are uncomfortable.

5. In Chapter 1, what is significant about Mailer's state at the time he is arrested?
(a) He is asleep.
(b) He is sedated.
(c) He is naked.
(d) He is drunk.

6. 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 have participated.
(b) He should be an observer.
(c) He should be a nonpartisan.
(d) He should be an organizer.

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

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

9. 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 maced.
(d) He does not want to be struck.

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

11. How does Mailer offend the hostess in Chapter 4?
(a) He breaks her toilet.
(b) He call her a loon.
(c) He forgets her name.
(d) He refuses dinner.

12. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer determine is the goal of an invasion of the Pentagon?
(a) To provide Paul Goodman a platform to self-promote.
(b) To wound the American military symbolically.
(c) To achieve publicity for the next day's events.
(d) To obstruct the daily activity of the Pentagon.

13. Where did Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller spend a period of time after college?
(a) The military.
(b) The south of Mexico
(c) Havana.
(d) Paris.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what drug does Mailer repeatedly decry?

2. What does Mailer drink during the party of Chapter 4?

3. What response does Coffin get to his turning in of the draft cards in Chapter 4?

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

5. How does Mailer dismiss de Grazia from the stage to begin emceeing the night in Chapter 5?

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