View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mailer doing in Chapter 5 when a Time Magazine correspondent approaches him?
(a) Trying to punch Paul Goodman.
(b) Sleeping in the aisle.
(c) Urinating on the floor.
(d) Vomiting out the window.

2. Which famous black leader's sister speaks in Chapter 3?
(a) Medger Evers.
(b) Malcolm X.
(c) Bobby Seale.
(d) Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. Who performs first in the event of Chapter 5?
(a) Goodman.
(b) Lowell.
(c) Mailer.
(d) Macdonald.

4. What word does Mailer use repeatedly in Chapter 1 to describe the effect of the Pentagon March?
(a) Ambiguous.
(b) Disappointing.
(c) Subtle.
(d) Galvanizing.

5. In Chapter 1, how long does Mailer suggest it will take to accurately understand the value of the March?
(a) 5-10 years.
(b) 10-20 years.
(c) 40-50 years.
(d) 100 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mailer's primary complaint about the performance space?

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

3. Which of the following men is not quoted by Mailer is having advocated sensory adjudication in Chapter 2?

4. What does Mailer liken himself to when he begins emceeing in Chapter 5?

5. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer determine is the goal of an invasion of the Pentagon?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ed de Grazia and Mailer scuffle in Chapter 5?

2. What metaphor does Mailer use in Chapter 5 to describe the Vietnam controvery in America and who takes what sides?

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

4. What amusing interchange happens between Mailer and Lowell in this section?

5. How does Mailer respond to William Sloane Coffin in Chapter 3?

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

7. Describe Norman Mailer as a character.

8. Why are Mailer, Macdonald, and Lowell ambivalent about getting arrested in Chapter 1?

9. What does Mailer find at the church in Chapter 3?

10. What is Mailer's attitude toward protest at the beginning of the novel?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 964 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample