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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 gets into a heated argument with the Solicitor General.
(c) He is swarmed by press.
(d) He is arrested.

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

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

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

5. Which of the following locations is not one that Mailer mentions rioting over the Vietnam issue in Chapter 2?
(a) Read College.
(b) Boston Common.
(c) Los Angeles, CA.
(d) University of Wisconsin.

6. According to Mailer in Chapter 3, how did Robert Lowell avoid fighting in World War II?
(a) He worked in a munitions factory.
(b) He became a foreign correspondent for the AP.
(c) He has flat feet.
(d) He was a conscientious objector.

7. What instrument does Mailer keep hearing as he marches to the Washington Memorial in Chapter 2?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Saxophone.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Snare drum.

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

9. In Chapter 1, who does Mailer get into a cloyingly complimentary conversation?
(a) William Sloane Coffin.
(b) Paul Goodman.
(c) Dwight Macdonald.
(d) Robert Lowell.

10. In Chapter 3, what concern does does Goodman have about the route to the Pentagon?
(a) The route involves a numer of sudden turns.
(b) There are rumors of roadblocks on the road.
(c) Law enforcement wants them to take the narrowest road.
(d) Know one knows the route.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following writers is not speaking at the protest?

2. Which of the following is not a style of dress that marchers wear in Chapter 2?

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?

4. Why do Mailer, Macdonald and Lowell want to be arrested first on Saturday?

5. To what does Mailer compare his hangover in Chapter 2?

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