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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fox consider highly unlikely regarding this book?
(a) That there is a full manuscript hidden somewhere.
(b) That Capote published some of it under a different name.
(c) Capote destroyed the work.
(d) Dunphy had the work sealed and stored away.

2. Where does P.B. Jones wish he would have moved?
(a) The Far East.
(b) The country.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) London.

3. What does Boatwright tell Jones about Jones' stories?
(a) They are inspired.
(b) They are near perfection.
(c) They are brilliant.
(d) They aren't very good.

4. What was the minimal payment Jones ever received for a sexual experience?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) Theater tickets.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) A piece of chocolate.

5. What runs rampant in Jones' building?
(a) Loud music.
(b) Unattended children.
(c) Sexual promiscuity.
(d) Drug abuse.

6. Mr. Wallace is probably a pseudonym for which famous person?
(a) John Steinbeck.
(b) William Faulkner.
(c) Tennessee Williams.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

7. Where does Florie Rotondo move after her trip?
(a) A suburb.
(b) Inner city.
(c) The country.
(d) Big city.

8. Who is P.B. Jones?
(a) A bartender.
(b) A florist.
(c) The narrator.
(d) An editor.

9. How does Jones learn of Denny Fout's death?
(a) From a drug dealer.
(b) From a caterer.
(c) From a friend.
(d) From a newspaper article.

10. What is the setting for this section of the book?
(a) New York.
(b) Aspen.
(c) London.
(d) Beverly Hills.

11. What happened to several more chapters of this book that were not published?
(a) Capote never showed them to anyone else.
(b) They were burned in a house fire.
(c) There were never any other chapters.
(d) They were lost on a crashed hard drive.

12. The book focuses on the lives of people in _______________.
(a) rural America.
(b) decline.
(c) poverty.
(d) high society.

13. For what other book is Truman Capote famous?
(a) Streetcar Named Desire.
(b) Killer Angels.
(c) Cane River.
(d) In Cold Blood.

14. What is Jones' first task for the man in #83?
(a) Respond to correspondence.
(b) Shine the man's shoes.
(c) Walk the man's dog.
(d) Send out for lunch.

15. What advice does the person in #68 give to Jones?
(a) Write every day regardless of what else is happening.
(b) Get up early every day to start writing.
(c) Always respect the ambitious child within.
(d) Never listen to critics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What work did Capote intend to mimic?

2. In what city did Jones write his book titled Sleepless Millions?

3. Why does Jones say it was too late for him to move to the country?

4. Jones was trained as a _________________.

5. How does the editor refer to the narrator of the book?

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