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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. What about Victoria Self's appearance strikes Jones?
(a) Her stilettos.
(b) Her glasses.
(c) Her watch.
(d) Her brooch.

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

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

4. What could have been the reason Capote never finished the book?
(a) He knew it would never achieve his standards.
(b) He died before he could finish it.
(c) He simply got tired of writing.
(d) He got too ill to complete it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the editor claim is at the core of this book?

2. What does Boatwright tell Jones about Jones' stories?

3. The book focuses on the lives of people in _______________.

4. Where does P.B. Jones wish he would have moved?

5. What is Fox's first theory of what happened to the rest of this book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a core theme of the book and how does it manifest in people?

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

3. Why does Jones identify so strongly with the American expatriates?

4. Who is Florie Rotondo?

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

6. What was the nature of Jones' one marriage?

7. What is the irony of Jones' namedropping in the book?

8. How did Jones get the money to get to New York and how does he describe his first year in that city?

9. Why are Jones' thoughts of jumping out the sixth floor window curtailed?

10. Which author and book do Jones and Hamilton discuss related to Jones' writing?

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