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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does one of the older gentlemen tell a young black man who gets overly angry in Chapter 4?
2. How many days in jail is Mailer sentenced to in Chapter 9?
3. In Chapter 1 of Book II, to whom does the "writer" pass the baton?
4. What is Donald Kalish's profession?
5. How does Mailer describe the MP's face at the end of Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the crowd becoming unruly in Chapter 4?
2. How does Mailer determine it is time to get arrested at the end of Chapter 5?
3. What conclusion does Mailer draw from two articles at the end of Chapter 6?
4. In the detain room in Chapter 3, what strikes Mailer about the people around him?
5. What bad news greets Mailer when he returns to New York in Chapter 11?
6. What reasons does Mailer list in Chapter 7 for people to be against the war?
7. Describe the more extreme voices in the march planning as discussed in Chapter 5.
8. How does Dick Fontaine figure into the events of this section?
9. What do the Fugs do at the Pentagon in Chapter 5?
10. Describe Norman Mailer's arrest in Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A good portion of the opening passages of Armies of the Night are as much about the niceties and snipes of the literary class in 1960's America as the protest culture of the same. Write an essay about Mailer's place and opinions in the world of prolific writers in the novel, focusing on three instances:
Part 1) Why does Mailer agree to come to the Pentagon march in Washington, DC? Discuss how this decision is more connected to his literary position in New York than his opinions on the Vietnam War? What does Mailer want to achieve through his involvement in the protest?
Part 2) Discuss the party held the first evening Mailer is in Washington, DC. What decisions does he make about the way that he treats the hostess? What is the reason for the awkward encounter Mailer has with Dwight Macdonald?
Part 3) Mailer enters the Ambassador presentation like a wrecking ball, attempting to destroy everyone around him. Discuss his reasons for doing this. What does he resent about those on the stage? How does Mailer want to be perceived by the audience? How does the popular reaction to his antics temper his behavior for the remainder of the weekend?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about the consistent comparison of the marchers in the novel to a conventional army. Begin your discussion of this likening of two armies by focusing on Mailer's connection of the march to his tour of duty in World War II. What are the similarities he mentions? Where is the comparable glory and agony experienced by both groups? How do the marchers have to prove their courage and willingness to sacrifice for comrades? How does this affect the wording used in describing them?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay about the protest culture that exists in the world of the novel. How does this culture affect the way famous people live their lives: in particular, how does the omnipresence of protest in America affect Mailer's decision to go to Washington, DC? How does the specter of the Martin Luther King, Jr. march on Washington hang over the events of the 1967 March in the novel? To what extent is the protest movement becoming somewhat rote in Armies of the Night?
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