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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. What is O.J. Berman's occupation?

2. How does Holly describe Mag?

3. What is Holly doing at the table at the restaurant where the narrator sees her?

4. What do Holly and the narrator steal?

5. What awakens the narrator on the night he first sees Holly Golightly?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Holly Golightly based on the narrator's description.

3. Why does Holly climb through the narrator's window?

4. How does Joe feel about Holly?

5. What did Holly do to O.J.Berman in the past to make him angry?

6. What are the "mean reds" according to Holly?

7. How does the narrator begin to feel without Holly being around?

8. What good news does the narrator receive while collecting his mail?

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

10. Describe Joe's bar.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is your opinion of the novella? What is your opinion of Holly Golightly? What makes this story different from others you have read?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of the shop, Tiffany's. Why is it important to Holly?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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