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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Mailer dressed for court in Chapter 9?
(a) A vest, tie, and cufflinks.
(b) A tee shirt and jeans.
(c) A dashiki.
(d) He is naked.

2. At the beginning of Chapter 4, how long has the crown been waiting to march?
(a) Half an hour.
(b) Fifteen minutes.
(c) Several hours.
(d) About one hour.

3. 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.

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

5. Where is the bus in Chapter 4 taking Mailer and the other marchers?
(a) A bus depot in Brookland.
(b) A school in Baltimore.
(c) A police station in Bethesda.
(d) A post office in Alexandria.

6. How does Mailer plead at his lawyer's suggestion?
(a) Guilty.
(b) He refuses to acknowledge the legitimacy of the court.
(c) No contest.
(d) Not guilty.

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

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

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

10. Why did march planning committee visit the Pentagon numerous times before the march?
(a) To gauge police coverage in the lots.
(b) To speak with security there.
(c) To choose the best side to approach.
(d) To take pictures for promotional materials.

11. What type of quasi-religious ceremony does the music group perform in Chapter 5?
(a) A laying-on of hands.
(b) An exorcism.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A baptism.

12. What is the stated goal of the March, as articulated by the Steering Committee in Chapter 3?
(a) To end the war in Vietnam.
(b) To shut down the war-making machine.
(c) To draw attention to the cost of the War.
(d) To raise awareness of illegal bombing in Laos and Cambodia.

13. What state is the MP from?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) West Virginia.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Minnesota.

14. From what era of literature does Mailer saying he is drawing a convention in the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) The Neoclassical Era.
(b) The Victorian Era.
(c) The Modernist Era.
(d) The Romantic Era.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mailer worried about missing at the beginning of Chapter 8?

2. Who is waiting her Mailer when he arrives at booking in Occoquan at the end of Chapter 5?

3. Which of the following titles is not one that Mailer the narrator gives himself, Lowell, and Macdonald in Chapter 4?

4. What left-wing attorney does the Mobilization Committee meet with in Chapter 4?

5. How does Mailer signal that he wants to be arrested at the beginning of Chapter 6?

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