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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Mailer liken himself to when he begins emceeing in Chapter 5?
(a) A mason laying foundation.
(b) A surgeon tending a breech birth.
(c) A jazz musician riffing on a theme.
(d) A lawyer parsing words.

4. What does Mailer recall as he walks toward the Washington Monument in Chapter 2?
(a) Losing his virginity.
(b) World War II.
(c) An afternoon in Madrid.
(d) The 1963 civil rights march.

5. On what day of the week is the march taking place?
(a) Tuesday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Wednesday.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has the audience been waiting when the speakers arrive at the theatre in Chapter 5?

2. Which of the following is not one of the aspects of war that Mailer mentions being disagreeable in Chapter 2?

3. What sport does Mailer liken the debate over Vietnam to in Chapter 5?

4. How does the audience respond to Lowell's poem in Chapter 6?

5. What does Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What concerns Goodman about the protest planning in Chapter 3?

2. What happens once the group arrives at the Justice Department in Chapter 4?

3. Describe Norman Mailer as a character.

4. Why does Mailer state he does not have a good instinct for speeches at protests?

5. Why is Dwight Macdonald livid about the newspaper coverage of the Ambassador event in Chapter 3?

6. Describe Mailer's emceeing in Chapters 5 and 6?

7. What rationalization does Mailer give for taking his book from the hostess's house in Chapter 5?

8. How does Mailer characterize the march to the Washington Monument in Chapter 2?

9. What is the plan for the Justice Department protest?

10. How does Mailer annoy Ed de Grazia in Chapter 4?

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