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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. How many days in jail is Mailer sentenced to in Chapter 9?
(a) 60.
(b) 30.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

2. Who in Chapter 5, is completely enthralled by the band's activities?
(a) Macdonald.
(b) Mailer.
(c) Lowell.
(d) Dellinger.

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

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

5. According to Mailer in Chapter 5, how big is the praking lot tot he Pentagon?
(a) As big as the Pentagon itself.
(b) The size of a grocery store's parking lot.
(c) Slightly smaller than the central mall.
(d) The size of 5 football fields.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 6, Mailer acknowledges that what was present on both sides of the line at the Pentagon?

3. What is the stated goal of the March, as articulated by the Steering Committee in Chapter 3?

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

5. Why does Mailer determine it is time to get arrested in the end of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What train of people following the the march in Chapter 4?

2. Describe Norman Mailer's arrest in Chapter 6?

3. What reasons does Mailer list in Chapter 7 for people to be against the war?

4. What do the MP's and the marchers have in common, according to Mailer in Chapter 6?

5. Describe the scene in Occaquan at the beginning of Chapter 6.

6. Describe the mood of the crown in the beginning of Chapter 4.

7. How does Dellinger go about planning the march in Chapters 2 and 3?

8. How does Dick Fontaine figure into the events of this section?

9. In the detain room in Chapter 3, what strikes Mailer about the people around him?

10. How does Mailer fair in court in Chapter 9?

(see the answer keys)

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