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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many young men in Chapter 3 will go to the Department of Justice to represent those turning in their draft cards?
(a) About 40.
(b) About 150.
(c) 10.
(d) About 100.

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

3. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?
(a) Lyndon Johnson's.
(b) Abbie Hoffman's.
(c) William Burroughs'.
(d) Ben Franklin's.

4. In Chapter 6, how does the audience respond to Mailer's profane tirade?
(a) They give him a standing ovation.
(b) They applaud politely.
(c) Halk of them walk out.
(d) They boo him.

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

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

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

8. Which descriptor best describes Mailer's feelings while watching Lowell speak in Chapter 6?
(a) Langorous.
(b) Bored.
(c) Enamored.
(d) Envious.

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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.

13. In Chapter 2, what word does Mailer want to tell Mitch Goodman to shove?
(a) Resistance.
(b) Peace.
(c) Solidarity.
(d) Taste.

14. In Chapter 2, to whom does Mailer state he holds final allegiance?
(a) Himself.
(b) Hippies.
(c) The government.
(d) Fellow artists.

15. According to the article in Chapter 1, why is Norman Mailer arrested?
(a) He vomits on the Lincoln Memorial.
(b) He is caught carrying a large bag of marijuana.
(c) He crosses a police line.
(d) He punches a presenter at an awards banquet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crime would Mailer be guilty of in returning young men's draft cards during the march, according to the statement in Chapter 2?

2. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer say he has sworn not to do, because it will support continued fighting Vietnam?

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

4. What is provided for the young men in Chapter 3's breakfast?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 1, to what does Mailer compare the atmosphere of the Hay-Adams breakfast crowd?

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