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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 does the woman dip?
2. How many miles is the most that the woman has ever traveled from her home?
3. Which coins does Truman consider "bitter-odored"?
4. From whom does Truman learn the true meaning of Christmas?
5. How much money does the woman think she has counted out of the purse?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Truman cheer up the woman in Section 2?
2. Describe Christmas breakfast.
3. How does Truman describe the money after they spill it from the bead purse?
4. What does the term "fruitcake weather" refer to?
5. What does the mill owner's wife do and how does the woman react?
6. In what way is the woman strong?
7. What happens to Queenie in Section 3?
8. Name two adjectives to describe Mr. Haha Jones and why you chose these particular words.
9. In Section 2, what causes Truman to be sad?
10. How does the woman change after Truman leaves for military school?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Section 1 mentions that the woman and Truman take great care in gathering ingredients to make fruitcake. What do you think it means that they "took great care"? Explain ways that you think the woman and Truman took care in gathering ingredients and also explain other instances where they might have expressed great care in doing something.
Essay Topic 2
Choose one character other than Truman and the woman to discuss. Give a brief description of the character. What element does this character bring to the book? How does this character influence Truman? How does this character influence the woman? Would the book be the same without this character? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
The book, A Christmas Memory, was based on Truman Capote's life. Truman Capote became a well known writer. How do you think his childhood experiences contributed to his outcome as a human being? Obviously Truman's cousin influenced him for the better, but what other characters do you think shaped Truman into the eventual adult he would become? How did these character's influence Truman's future?
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