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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is not a reason Mailer gives for a person's opposition to the War in Chapter 7?
(a) He has Communist sympathies.
(b) He is afraid of the draft.
(c) He believes it is an unjust war.
(d) He is a pacifist.

2. In what month is the March held?
(a) January.
(b) July.
(c) October.
(d) April.

3. Counting his current one, how many wives has Mailer had?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 7.
(d) 2.

4. Who arrives in in Chapter 4 as the protesters are forming ranks?
(a) The police.
(b) Televisions crews.
(c) The Black Panthers.
(d) Noam Chomsky.

5. What left-wing attorney does the Mobilization Committee meet with in Chapter 4?
(a) Kunstler.
(b) Van Cleve.
(c) Kuby.
(d) de Grazia.

6. What good news does John Boyle give Mailer in Chapter 3?
(a) They will probably be released.
(b) Lowell and Macdonald will be in the next group.
(c) The march successfully invaded the Pentagon.
(d) They will be fed soon.

7. Which New York-based journalist is quoted at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Pauline Kael.
(b) Jimmy Breslin.
(c) Frank Rich.
(d) Truman Capote.

8. Which of Mailer's writer friends is present in the Volkswagen with him in Chapter 2?
(a) Dwight Macdonald.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) None of them.
(d) Paul Goodman.

9. What does Mailer begin working on in Occaquan in Chapter 7?
(a) A rebuttal to Teague's ideology.
(b) An outline for a new novel.
(c) An open letter to the papers.
(d) His speech upon release.

10. Who is Mailer's lawyer in Chapter 9?
(a) Goodman.
(b) de Grazia.
(c) Kube.
(d) Dellinger.

11. Next to what famous left icon's bunk does Mailer lay down at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Dan Berrigan.
(b) Noam Chomsky.
(c) Wavy Gravy.
(d) Abbie Hoffman.

12. Which of the following militant groups chooses to sit and hold their ground at the March?
(a) The Black Panthers.
(b) SDS.
(c) The Symbionese Liberation Army.
(d) The Weathermen.

13. What type of overtones are part of Mailer's speech in Chapter 10?
(a) Socialist.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Militaristic.
(d) Religious.

14. Who in Chapter 5, is completely enthralled by the band's activities?
(a) Dellinger.
(b) Lowell.
(c) Mailer.
(d) Macdonald.

15. What does the Revolutionary Contingent do during the March, as noted in Chapter 5?
(a) It throws malatov cocktails.
(b) It physically accosts MP's.
(c) It throws eggs at departing Pentagon officials' cars.
(d) It lies prostrate on the lot of the Pentagon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Donald Kalish's profession?

2. What does Mailer tell Fontain about his arrest in Chapter 1?

3. How is Mailer dressed for court in Chapter 9?

4. In Chapter 2, who does Dellinger bring on a Project Manager for the March?

5. How does Mailer respond to the band's ritual in Chapter 6?

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