Breakfast at Tiffany's Study Guide

1. Why was the narrator fond of his first apartment?

• He had an interesting roommate
• It was the first place of his own
• It was large and beautifully furnished
• He wasn't fond of his apartment

2. Where was Holly Golightly's apartment?

• Next door to the narrator's
• Above the narrator's
• Below the narrator's
• Above Joe Bell's bar

3. Which is NOT one of Joe Bell's interests?

• Ice hockey
• Gilbert and Sullivan
• Sausage making
• Weimaraner dogs

4. What is Joe Bell doing when the narrator enters his bar?

• Crying
• Watching a baseball game
• Arranging flowers
• Polishing a mirror

5. How does the narrator know I.Y. Yunioshi?

• They were both regulars at Joe Bell's bar
• He met him travelling through Japan
• He lived above the narrator in the brownstone
• He worked with him on a picture magazine

6. What or who is Winchell?

• A popular film star of the 40s and 50s
• An African carver
• A popular gossip columnist of the day
• A neighborhood gossip

7. In what village does Yunioshi find the carving of Holly?

• Tococo
• Tococul
• Morroco
• Anglia

8. Why does the African artist refuse to sell the carving of Holly?

• He recognizes that it is a priceless work of art
• He had a relationship with Holly and treasures her memory
• It is not a carving of Holly, and does not want to cheat Yunioshi
• He does not understand Yunioshi's English, and does not realize that Yunioshi is negotiating a sale

9. Why does Joe Bell refuse to believe that Holly is in New York

• He has concrete proof that she is still in Africa
• She told him that she would never return to New York
• She promised that if she ever returned, she would visit him
• He has walked the streets for ten years and never seen her

10. Which is the only name the narrator recognizes on the mailboxes of his old brownstone?

• Sapphia Spanella
• Quaintance Smith
• I.Y. Yunioshi
• Mag Wildwood