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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. To what floor has Jones moved in his building?
(a) 6th.
(b) 13th.
(c) 2nd.
(d) 21st.

2. What does Jones imply that he is considering?
(a) Moving to Europe.
(b) A new career.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Getting married.

3. What does Jones consider the item in #70 to be?
(a) A bribe.
(b) A nuisance.
(c) A trinket.
(d) A talisman.

4. What does the person in #68 give to Jones when he visits her/his home?
(a) Grey fedora.
(b) Crystal paperweight.
(c) Diamond cufflinks.
(d) Mont Blanc pen.

5. Who is most probably the narrator of the book?
(a) Truman Capote.
(b) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) William Faulkner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jones first meet Denham Fouts?

2. What does Fox consider highly unlikely regarding this book?

3. What happened to several more chapters of this book that were not published?

4. Which famous French novelist does Jones meet in Paris?

5. Why does Jones say it would be pointless to climb out the window?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the irony of Jones' namedropping in the book?

2. Explain Truman Capote's notoriety in the 1960s and 1970s.

3. What is the significance of the crystal paperweight given to Jones by Colette?

4. What is Jones' perspective on moving to the country himself?

5. Who does the editor feel is the real person disguised as P.B. Jones?

6. Which author and book did Capote try to emulate in the writing of ANSWERED PRAYERS?

7. Who are some of the famous people who Jones meets at Boatwright's parties?

8. What is the premise of ANSWERED PRAYERS?

9. Who is Florie Rotondo?

10. Why does the author reveal the sexual practices in both high society as well as the lower side of life at the YMCA?

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