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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. Who is one person who becomes a key figure in Jones' life?
(a) Joyce van Patten.
(b) Monique von Selsen.
(c) Hedy Lamaar.
(d) Alice Lee Langman.

2. Who is the secretary in Victoria Self's office?
(a) Randy.
(b) Michel.
(c) Simone.
(d) Butch.

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

4. What does Jones consider the item in #70 to be?
(a) A trinket.
(b) A talisman.
(c) A bribe.
(d) A nuisance.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jones think would have happened if he had moved to the country?

2. What could have been the reason Capote never finished the book?

3. On what holiday did Jones' marriage break up?

4. What does Florie Rotondo encounter on her travels?

5. Jones reveals that he is working on a novel entitled __________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Denham Fouts?

2. What is the premise of ANSWERED PRAYERS?

3. Why did Capote's friends disown him after the publication of this book?

4. Who are some of the famous people who Jones meets at Boatwright's parties?

5. Which author and book did Capote try to emulate in the writing of ANSWERED PRAYERS?

6. Explain Truman Capote's notoriety in the 1960s and 1970s.

7. Give an example of how the author thinly veils the work as fiction.

8. What is the significance of the crystal paperweight given to Jones by Colette?

9. Which American expatriate has a strong influence on Jones' life?

10. Why does the author reveal the sexual practices in both high society as well as the lower side of life at the YMCA?

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