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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 Truman use ten cents for every Saturday?
(a) To go to the picture show.
(b) To buy food for dinner.
(c) To buy bubble gum and candy.
(d) To go to tap dancing lessons.

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

3. What type of work does Truman like best when making the fruitcakes?
(a) Hulling the pecans.
(b) Tasting the fruitcakes.
(c) Buying the ingredients.
(d) Buying the whiskey.

4. What is the grand prize for winning the coffee brand-naming contest?
(a) Five hundred dollars.
(b) One hundred dollars.
(c) Fifty thousand dollars.
(d) Fifty dollars.

5. What type of coin does Truman call the liveliest?
(a) Quarters.
(b) Pennies.
(c) Nickels.
(d) Dimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the nuts that are used to make the fruitcake that is found?

2. What has the woman never received or sent?

3. What is Truman stuffing in Section 1?

4. The woman is afraid that they will put someone where if they "mess around with" her superstition?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the place where the woman and Truman find the tree.

2. What is the purpose of Truman mentioning the kites at the end of the story?

3. How does Truman describe the money after they spill it from the bead purse?

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

5. What is Mr. Haha Jones' occupation?

6. Describe what the woman is wearing in Section 1.

7. Name two adjectives to describe Mr. Haha Jones and why you chose these particular words.

8. Describe Christmas morning.

9. Why does Truman think the woman is still a child?

10. Describe Queenie.

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