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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 does the woman declare at the beginning of her favorite season?
(a) It is "jam and jelly weather".
(b) It is "tree picking weather".
(c) It is "fruitcake weather".
(d) It is "bible reading weather".

2. Why is the Fun and Freak show shut down?
(a) People stopped coming.
(b) Queenie attacked the three-legged chicken.
(c) The three-legged chicken died.
(d) The relatives ordered the woman to stop the show.

3. The woman states that "we can't mess around with" what?
(a) The relatives.
(b) Queenie.
(c) The fruitcakes.
(d) Thirteen.

4. What do the woman and Truman want to name their brand of coffee for a contest they entered?
(a) A.M.
(b) Wake up.
(c) Amen.
(d) Amen Juice.

5. What type of bed does the woman sleep in?
(a) Wood.
(b) Hay.
(c) Iron.
(d) Feather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the woman and Truman win in a national football contest?

2. What covers the woman's bed?

3. In Section 1, how old is the woman?

4. What is the name of the woman's childhood friend?

5. In what month does the story begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What things does Truman draw to make into ornaments for the tree?

2. What does the term "fruitcake weather" refer to?

3. What is one theme that Truman Capote brings out in A Christmas Memory? Name one part of the story that uses this theme.

4. Describe Queenie.

5. Name some ways that Truman and the woman earned money to make fruitcake.

6. Why are the relatives referred to as "those who know best"?

7. What does Mr. Haha Jones do after the woman asks for whiskey?

8. The money for the fruitcake fund is hidden in what way?

9. What is the contrast between Mr. Haha Jones' cafe in the day versus the night?

10. What does the mill owner's wife do and how does the woman react?

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