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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mailer's primary complaint about the performance space?
(a) The seats are uncomfortable.
(b) The sound system is bad.
(c) There are no curtains on the stage.
(d) There is no ventilation.

2. What other protest speaker is on the same plane as with Mailer in Chapter 3?
(a) Dwight Macdonald.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Ed de Grazia.
(d) Paul Goodman.

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

4. What favor has Mailer recently done for Goodman?
(a) He praised him on the Dick Cavett Show.
(b) He wrote a blurb for his book.
(c) He became Goodman's son's godfather.
(d) He recommended him for a Times op-ed.

5. The opening of the novel is taken from an article in which publication?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) Time Magazine.
(c) Cracked.
(d) The New Yorker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is entertaining the audience when the speakers arrive?

2. According to the article in Chapter 1, why is Norman Mailer arrested?

3. Which character in Chapter 3 is astounded by the fact that the papers were kind to Mailer's performance and not his?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer specifically not want done to him at the protest, should the police sweep in?

5. Who in Chapter 5, is completely enthralled by the band's activities?

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