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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. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer agree to do the protest?
(a) Stay away from it.
(b) Speak at it.
(c) Be photographed with the organizer.
(d) Cover it for the Village Voice.

2. 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 lawyer parsing words.
(d) A jazz musician riffing on a theme.

3. Where are the protest speakers going when they leave the part at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) A bar.
(b) The hotel.
(c) The theater.
(d) The Department of Justice.

4. What does Goodman in Chapter 2 indicate may happen at the protest?
(a) They may egg the President's care.
(b) Eugene McCarthy may speak.
(c) They may invade the Pentagon.
(d) National press may cover the speeches.

5. Whose flattery in Chapter 4 is Mailer suspicious of?
(a) Lowell's.
(b) de Grazia's.
(c) Macdonald's.
(d) The host's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is scheduled to happen in Washington, DC, the day that Mailer arrives?

2. What does Mailer forget to give back to the hostess when he leaves the party in Chapter 4?

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

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

5. Which of the following ideas is not something that Mailer declares the young generation believes in more fervently than its forebears in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasoning does Mailer give for placing himself at the center of the narrative of the novel in Chapter 1?

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

3. Why is Mailer late to emcee the event in Chapter 5?

4. Why does Mailer agree to join the Pentagon protest in Chapter 2?

5. Describe the performance space of this section.

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

7. What does Mailer feel about left-wing splinter groups' names in Chapter 3?

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

9. What appraisal of Robert Lowell does Mailer make in en route to the Department of Justice in Chapter 3?

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

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