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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III, Chapters 1-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 recommended him for a Times op-ed.
(d) He became Goodman's son's godfather.

3. In Chapter 1, Mailer claims that America's New Left is drawing its political aesthetic from what country?
(a) Cuba.
(b) Russia.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) China.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 3, what does Mailer resolve to do?
(a) Slip out of Washingotn in the afternoon.
(b) Get arrested.
(c) Stay sober for the march.
(d) Punch Mitch Goodman.

5. Which Ivy League university did both Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller graduate from?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Yale.
(d) Cornell.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, what concern does does Goodman have about the route to the Pentagon?

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

3. Which of the following is not something Mailer is mentioned doing during his emceeing of Chapter 5?

4. What does Goodman in Chapter 2 indicate may happen at the protest?

5. What vulgar story does Mailer tell the assembled audience in Chapter 6?

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