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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Lowell, Mailer, and Macdonald go after the card return in Chapter 4?
(a) A hot-dog stand.
(b) The hotel.
(c) A bar.
(d) The Pentagon.

2. Which social or literary figure calls Mailer in Chapter 2?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) Mitch Goodman.
(c) Abbie Hoffman.
(d) Jean Genet.

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

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

5. What does Mailer intimate about his drinking the night before Chapter 1?
(a) He blacked out.
(b) He became belligerent toward his fellow writers.
(c) He abstained from all alcohol.
(d) He did not get very drunk.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what does Mailer compare his hangover in Chapter 2?

3. What does Mailer forget to give back to the hostess when he leaves the party in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 1, who does Mailer get into a cloyingly complimentary conversation?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mailer pointedly note about the black delegates at the march in Chapter 3?

2. What reasoning does Mailer give for placing himself at the center of the narrative of the novel in Chapter 1?

3. What is the plan for the Justice Department protest?

4. What does Mailer feel about left-wing splinter groups' names in Chapter 3?

5. Why are Mailer, Macdonald, and Lowell ambivalent about getting arrested in Chapter 1?

6. How does Mailer annoy Ed de Grazia in Chapter 4?

7. Why is Mailer late to emcee the event in Chapter 5?

8. Describe the performance space of this section.

9. What state is Mailer in when he leaves the party in Chapter 4?

10. What does Mailer find at the church in Chapter 3?

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