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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator remind Holly of?

2. Whose number does Holly ask O.J. for?

3. How does the narrator describe Holly's features?

4. What does Holly call Fred while talking to Mag?

5. What month is it when Holly and the narrator eat lunch at the cafeteria in the park?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story about that Joe tells the narrator?

2. How does Joe feel about Holly?

3. How do Holly and the narrator celebrate his good news?

4. Where does the narrator see Holly when he is out, and what is she doing?

5. Describe Joe's bar.

6. What wakes up the narrator after he has been living at the brownstone?

7. Based on this first section, how might Holly Golightly have gotten her name?

8. Why does Holly call the narrator a snoop?

9. Why is Mag hesitant to marry Jose?

10. Who is Mag Wildwood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Capote's use of names to describe the personalities of the characters. What effect does this have on the story? Why does Capote choose to leave the narrator nameless?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of Christmas in the novella "Breakfast at Tiffany's". What important events occur on or around Christmas? Why would Capote choose to have these events fall on Christmas?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Holly Golightly as a popular culture icon. In what way has the image and character of Holly Golightly endured over the years? Why is this character so intriguing to the public? What role did the 1961 film play in developing Holly Golightly into a cultural icon?

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