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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is William Sloane Coffin?
(a) Editor of The New Republic.
(b) A former Air Force pilot.
(c) Chaplain at Yale.
(d) A local DC businessman.

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. What does Goodman in Chapter 2 indicate may happen at the protest?
(a) They may egg the President's care.
(b) National press may cover the speeches.
(c) Eugene McCarthy may speak.
(d) They may invade the Pentagon.

8. To what does Mailer compare his hangover in Chapter 2?
(a) A garbage heap.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) Napalm.
(d) An atomic bomb.

9. In Chapter 3, Mailer states that left-wing groups should choose names similar to what?
(a) Religious sects.
(b) Motorcycle gangs.
(c) Right-wing groups.
(d) Fortune 500 companies.

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

11. Whose flattery in Chapter 4 is Mailer suspicious of?
(a) Macdonald's.
(b) The host's.
(c) de Grazia's.
(d) Lowell's.

12. Who begins the informal meeting in Chapter 3?
(a) Paul Goodman.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Norman Mailer.
(d) Mitch Goodman.

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

14. Who performs first in the event of Chapter 5?
(a) Mailer.
(b) Goodman.
(c) Lowell.
(d) Macdonald.

15. Where did Mailer and the Chapter 2 caller spend a period of time after college?
(a) Paris.
(b) The military.
(c) The south of Mexico
(d) Havana.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose "dwarf alter ego" did Mailer claim to be at the Ambassador speech, according to Macdonald in Chapter 3?

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

4. In Chapter 1, how long does Mailer suggest it will take to accurately understand the value of the March?

5. How long has the audience been waiting when the speakers arrive at the theatre in Chapter 5?

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