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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mailer state in Chapter 5 is the best course of action if you cannot please a liberal hostess?
(a) Get her a gift basket.
(b) Apologize profusely.
(c) Slip out inconspiculously.
(d) Wrong her completely.

2. Who is emceeing when Mailer arrives to the theatre in Chapter 5?
(a) de Grazia.
(b) Goodman.
(c) Lowell.
(d) Macdonald.

3. What phrase does Mailer use to stand in for any sort of improvised speech?
(a) Holding court.
(b) Orating.
(c) Winging.
(d) Speaking-in-public.

4. What does Mailer take from de Grazia in Chapter 4?
(a) The telling of a story from their time in Madrid.
(b) The emcee role for the evening.
(c) His drink.
(d) The key to his hotel room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the audience respond to Lowell's poem in Chapter 6?

2. Why does Mailer's conversation with Macdonald become awkward in Chapter 4?

3. What does Mailer carry with him when he leaves the part in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer agree to do the protest?

5. What favor has Mailer recently done for Goodman?

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