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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 an area that the attorney of Chapter 4 gets permission for protest activity?
(a) The north lot of the Pentagon.
(b) The Lincoln Memorial.
(c) The road leading to the Pentagon.
(d) The Washington Monument.

2. What is happening to Mailer at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) He is sleeping under a tree.
(b) He is giving a television interview.
(c) He is lying on the ground after being maced.
(d) He is being arrested.

3. Which of the following titles is not one that Mailer the narrator gives himself, Lowell, and Macdonald in Chapter 4?
(a) The Novelist.
(b) The Critic.
(c) The Poet.
(d) The Journalist.

4. How is Mailer certain the MP in Chapter 6 is not going to hit him?
(a) He is black.
(b) He says he is a fan.
(c) He does not have a club.
(d) His hand is trembling.

5. To what ancient monument does Mailer compare the Pentagon in Chapter 4?
(a) The Tower of Babel.
(b) The Colloseum.
(c) The Pyramids.
(d) The Great Wall.

6. What does Mailer tell Fontain about his arrest in Chapter 1?
(a) It will not stop the cause.
(b) It is unjust.
(c) It was done correctly.
(d) It is not the first time he has been in handcuffs.

7. What Communist leader's writings is Walter Teague teaching in Chapter 6?
(a) Castro.
(b) Mao.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Trotsky.

8. Which character introduced in this section has been arrested 9 times at protests?
(a) The "nazi."
(b) The Hungarian freedom fighter.
(c) Walter Teague.
(d) John Boyle.

9. In Chapter 5, who goes to sleep in the cell with Mailer?
(a) John Doyle.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Walter Teague.
(d) The Hungarian freedom fighter.

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

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

12. At what time in Chapter 8 does Teague begin his lectures again?
(a) 5 AM.
(b) 4 PM.
(c) 12 PM.
(d) 8 AM.

13. What word best describes the collective mood of the protesters at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Violent.
(b) Lost.
(c) Focused.
(d) Impatient.

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

15. Who paid the $65,000 required to fund the march?
(a) The participating groups.
(b) The Democratic party.
(c) Supportive churches.
(d) Several wealthy donors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mailer plead at his lawyer's suggestion?

2. Which of the following militant groups chooses to sit and hold their ground at the March?

3. In Chapter 1 of Book II, to whom does the "writer" pass the baton?

4. Where is the bus in Chapter 4 taking Mailer and the other marchers?

5. From what neighborhood in New York are the acquaintances Mailer encounters in Occaquan?

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