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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. In what month does the story begin?
(a) December.
(b) January.
(c) November.
(d) October.

2. What type of flowers does the woman's hat have on it?
(a) Daisies.
(b) Lilies.
(c) Carnations.
(d) Roses.

3. What does the woman dip?
(a) Nuts.
(b) Chocolates.
(c) Snuff.
(d) Fruit.

4. What is the woman's favorite color?
(a) Rose pink.
(b) Midnight blue.
(c) Green.
(d) Purple.

5. How many rattles does the rattlesnake have that the woman kills?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Ten.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Truman use ten cents for every Saturday?

2. What type of bed does the woman sleep in?

3. Why are there no birds singing before the woman gets out of bed?

4. What covers the woman's bed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Truman thinks of all the things he would like to buy for the woman for Christmas while he is making her gift. What types of things would Truman like to buy for the woman and what does he make for her?

3. What type of genre do you consider A Christmas Memory to be, and why?

4. Describe the woman.

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

6. Why do strangers end up being the woman's truest friends?

7. What two adjectives would describe the woman? Give reasons for both.

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

9. Describe Mr. Haha Jones.

10. How does the woman stay the same after Truman leaves for military school?

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