Q 01/05

What do the narrator and his elderly friend bake by the dozen each winter in A Christmas Memory?

A) Gingerbread men

B) Fruitcakes

C) Mince pies

D) Sugar cookies

Answer · why

B) Fruitcakes

Fruitcakes take the pair four days to bake, and most are mailed to people they have met once or never at all.

Q 02/05

Which handmade present do the narrator and his friend make each other for their last Christmas in A Christmas Memory?

A) Rag dolls

B) Slingshots

C) Kites

D) Whistles

Answer · why

C) Kites

Kites are all the pair can afford, so each builds one in secret, though a few years earlier they had traded slingshots. They fly them together on Chri...

Q 03/05

How is the elderly woman in A Christmas Memory related to the seven-year-old boy who narrates the story?

A) His grandmother

B) His great-aunt

C) His godmother

D) His cousin

Answer · why

D) His cousin

His cousin, a distant one in her sixties, is also his best friend, and Capote modeled her on the relative who helped raise him in Alabama.

Q 04/05

Which president do the pair in A Christmas Memory mail a homemade gift every year without ever meeting him?

A) Franklin Roosevelt

B) Herbert Hoover

C) Theodore Roosevelt

D) Calvin Coolidge

Answer · why

A) Franklin Roosevelt

Franklin Roosevelt is the most famous name on a mailing list made up mostly of strangers and people the pair have met only once or twice.

Q 05/05

Which future novelist lived next door to young Truman Capote in the Alabama town behind A Christmas Memory?

A) Eudora Welty

B) Harper Lee

C) Flannery O'Connor

D) Carson McCullers

Answer · why

B) Harper Lee

Harper Lee remained Capote's lifelong friend and put him into To Kill a Mockingbird as the character Dill.