1. All of the following events occurred on the final day of the Clutters’ lives EXCEPT
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Bobby watches TV with the family.
Herb signs a life insurance policy.
Nancy goes to the 4-H meeting.
Mrs. Clutter talks to Jolene Katz.
2. Perry’s unfortunate life includes all of the following EXCEPT
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parents’ marriage problems.
absolutely no schooling.
motorcycle accident.
the death of two of his siblings.
3. Capote omits the murder scene in Part I because
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it will reveal the two murderers of the crime.
it is not significant to the plot.
it will create suspense of how the murder took place.
it centers the attention on the accusations.
4. It is stated that the four shotgun blasts ended how many human lives on that November morning?
6
3
4
5
5. What was Perry’s main reason for going to Kansas, even though it was a parole violation?
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To purposely violate his parole sentence out of spite
To make a “score” with Dick
He wanted to see the “brilliant” Willie-Jay
He and Dick were best friends and so he was obligated to help Dick
6. How does Capote try to make the scenes of action seem to happen simultaneously?
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He uses long sentences.
He describes many different scenes in one chapter.
He divides the book into 4 parts, with the first part devoted only to one character.
He uses short chapters and switches back and forth between scenes of the victims/investigators and the murderers.
7. Who is the last person to see the Clutter family alive?
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Jolene Katz
Bobby Rupp
Susan Kidwell
Larry Hendricks
8. The Bible on Bonnie Clutter’s nightstand has a bookmark embroidered with the phrase, “Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” Of what literary device is this an example?
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characterization
tone
foreshadowing
symbol
9. All of the following are reasons that Mr. Clutter did not approve of Nancy’s relationship with Bobby EXCEPT
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Mr. Clutter disapproved that they were “going steady.”
he played basketball.
Mr. Clutter caught them kissing.
he was a Catholic.
10. Where did Dick go after the murders?
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his ex wife’s home
a hotel room
home
Garden City
11. Character Identification: Match each quotation with the character it describes.
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Richard Hickock
Perry Smith
Bonnie Clutter
Herbert Clutter
Richard Hickcock
Kenyon Clutter
*“He was, however, the community’s most widely known citizen, prominent both there and in Garden City, the close-by county seat, where he headed the building committee for the newly completed First Methodist Church…”
* “He preferred root beer. Three aspirin, cold root beer, and a chain of Pall Mall cigarettes-that was his notion of a proper “chow-down.”
* “His crew-cut hair was hemp-colored; and he was six feet tall and lanky, though hefty enough to have once rescued a pair of full-grown sheep by carrying them two miles through a blizzard-sturdy, strong, but cursed with a lanky boy’s lack of muscular coordination.”
* She was ‘nervous,’ she suffered ‘little spells’-such were the sheltering expressions used by those close to her.”
* “…a more normal-sized man, a powerful man, with the shoulders, the arms, the thick, crouching torso of a weight lifter—weight lifting was in fact his hobby. But some sections of him were not proportional to others.”
* “…he seemed a flimsy dingy-blond youth of medium height fleshless and perhaps sunken-chested; disrobing revealed that he was nothing of the sort, but rather, and athlete constructed on a welterweight scale. The tattooed face of a cat, blue and grinning covered his right hand.”
* “[…] it was as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off center […]”
