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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) His struggles with intense constipation.
(b) His urination before the show.
(c) How he ran into a dog on the highway yesterday.
(d) A woman he slept with earlier in the week.

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

3. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Mailer resolve to do?
(a) Slip out of Washingotn in the afternoon.
(b) Punch Mitch Goodman.
(c) Stay sober for the march.
(d) Get arrested.

4. Which of the following is not something Mailer is mentioned doing during his emceeing of Chapter 5?
(a) Slurring his speech.
(b) Cursing.
(c) Sweating through his shirt.
(d) Rambling incoherently.

5. Where do the organizers of the March go for breakfast in Chapter 3?
(a) A union hall.
(b) A church.
(c) Another hotel.
(d) A bar.

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

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

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

9. How does Mailer dismiss de Grazia from the stage to begin emceeing the night in Chapter 5?
(a) He slaps his behind.
(b) He pushes him over.
(c) He waltzes him off the stage.
(d) He orders him to fetch some water.

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

11. Who is emceeing when Mailer arrives to the theatre in Chapter 5?
(a) Goodman.
(b) Lowell.
(c) de Grazia.
(d) Macdonald.

12. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer agree to do the protest?
(a) Cover it for the Village Voice.
(b) Speak at it.
(c) Be photographed with the organizer.
(d) Stay away from it.

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

14. What response does Coffin get to his turning in of the draft cards in Chapter 4?
(a) He is refused by the Justice officials.
(b) He is arrested.
(c) He is swarmed by press.
(d) He gets into a heated argument with the Solicitor General.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Mailer get into a shouting matching in Chapter 6?

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

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

4. What favor has Mailer recently done for Goodman?

5. Whose flattery in Chapter 4 is Mailer suspicious of?

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