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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To where does Florie Rotondo travel?
(a) The North Pole.
(b) The center of the earth.
(c) London.
(d) China.

2. What did Capote change during the writing of this book?
(a) His agent.
(b) His home address.
(c) His middle name.
(d) His writing style.

3. What does Jones think would have happened if he had moved to the country?
(a) He would have probably killed himself.
(b) He would have missed the night life.
(c) He would have been very lonely.
(d) His life would have been better.

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

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

6. Why does Jones say it was too late for him to move to the country?
(a) The farm he was interested sold to someone else.
(b) He had already headed to the Earth's interior.
(c) He already bought property in a suburb.
(d) He was living in a townhouse.

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

8. Which famous person does Jones meet in Paris?
(a) Gertrude Stein.
(b) Ed McMahon.
(c) Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Andy Warhol.

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

10. What does Jones refer to himself as?
(a) Last of the good guys.
(b) Hershey Bar whore.
(c) A lost cause.
(d) Prince among men.

11. How can Capote's public persona be generally described?
(a) Shy around others.
(b) Unable to speak in public.
(c) Extremely opinionated.
(d) Passive.

12. Which famous French novelist does Jones meet in Paris?
(a) Antoine de Saint Exupery.
(b) Annie Ernaux.
(c) Marcel Proust.
(d) Colette.

13. Jones was trained as a _________________.
(a) pilot.
(b) lawyer.
(c) mechanic.
(d) masseur.

14. Who is the expatriate American who has a strong impact on Jones?
(a) Avery McClintock.
(b) Kate McCloud.
(c) Piper Laurie.
(d) Suzanne McEvoy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of school did Jones attend?

2. What work did Capote intend to mimic?

3. For which of the following is Truman Capote NOT known?

4. Miss Self sends Jones on his first appointment with a man whose pseudonym is _______________.

5. Who is Woodrow Hamilton?

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