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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. What sport does Mailer liken the debate over Vietnam to in Chapter 5?
(a) Football.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Bowling.

2. What instrument does Mailer keep hearing as he marches to the Washington Memorial in Chapter 2?
(a) Guitar.
(b) Snare drum.
(c) Trumpet.
(d) Saxophone.

3. In Chapter 1, who does Mailer get into a cloyingly complimentary conversation?
(a) William Sloane Coffin.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Paul Goodman.
(d) Dwight Macdonald.

4. According to mailer in Chapter 1, which of the following qualities is definitely not necessary in a protagonist for the story of the March?
(a) He should have participated.
(b) He should be an observer.
(c) He should be an organizer.
(d) He should be a nonpartisan.

5. How does Mailer dismiss de Grazia from the stage to begin emceeing the night in Chapter 5?
(a) He orders him to fetch some water.
(b) He slaps his behind.
(c) He pushes him over.
(d) He waltzes him off the stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is not a style of dress that marchers wear in Chapter 2?

2. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer claim the young generation hates more than anything else?

3. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer determine is the goal of an invasion of the Pentagon?

4. Where did Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller spend a period of time after college?

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

(see the answer key)

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