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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what is significant about Mailer's state at the time he is arrested?
(a) He is asleep.
(b) He is naked.
(c) He is drunk.
(d) He is sedated.

2. Who is entertaining the audience when the speakers arrive?
(a) An improv group.
(b) A folk music group.
(c) A troup of mimes.
(d) A poet.

3. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?
(a) Abbie Hoffman's.
(b) William Burroughs'.
(c) Lyndon Johnson's.
(d) Ben Franklin's.

4. How does Mailer offend the hostess in Chapter 4?
(a) He call her a loon.
(b) He breaks her toilet.
(c) He forgets her name.
(d) He refuses dinner.

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

6. Who speaks with Mitch Goodman at the Justice Department in Chapter 4?
(a) Norman Mailer.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Noam Chomsky.
(d) Dr. Ben Spock.

7. Which of the following is not a style of dress that marchers wear in Chapter 2?
(a) Sgt. Pepper uniforms.
(b) Turkish shepherd robes.
(c) African dashikis.
(d) Eisenhower jackets.

8. In Chapter 1, what does Mailer claim the young generation hates more than anything else?
(a) War.
(b) Poverty.
(c) The free market.
(d) Authority.

9. How many young men in Chapter 3 will go to the Department of Justice to represent those turning in their draft cards?
(a) 10.
(b) About 150.
(c) About 40.
(d) About 100.

10. In Chapter 2, what does Mailer say he has sworn not to do, because it will support continued fighting Vietnam?
(a) Read the Washington Post.
(b) Purchase Coors beer.
(c) Pay a 10% increase in the income tax.
(d) Turn in aluminum as certain stations.

11. Why do Mailer, Macdonald and Lowell want to be arrested first on Saturday?
(a) They want to escape Mitch Goodman.
(b) Only the first ones arrested will be photographed.
(c) They want to get out of the hot sun quickly.
(d) They want to catch an evening flight back to New York.

12. Which of the following men is not quoted by Mailer is having advocated sensory adjudication in Chapter 2?
(a) Thomas Aquinis.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) John O'Hara.
(d) Leo Tolstoy.

13. In Chapter 6, how does Mailer characterize Macdonald politically?
(a) A know-nothing.
(b) A libertarian.
(c) A Trotskyite.
(d) An anti-communist.

14. What vulgar story does Mailer tell the assembled audience in Chapter 6?
(a) A woman he slept with earlier in the week.
(b) How he ran into a dog on the highway yesterday.
(c) His struggles with intense constipation.
(d) His urination before the show.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is emceeing when Mailer arrives to the theatre in Chapter 5?

2. Who is William Sloane Coffin?

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

4. According to Mailer in Chapter 3, how did Robert Lowell avoid fighting in World War II?

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

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