Think you’ve got your head wrapped around In Cold Blood? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The narrator in In Cold Blood is:
Morgan Freeman. It's always Morgan Freeman
The Clutter family
Truman Capote
The omniscient narrator, townspeople, and investigators
Q. The climax of the novel is:
The discovery of the bodies
The recounting of the murders by Perry
The execution of Perry and Dick
Don Cullivan's Gangnam Style dance number
Q. Capote said his strategy for depicting characters was:
quoting everything they said or wrote to him
selectively deciding what narrative to include
committing a murder himself to really get inside the characters' heads
reading Shmoop lit guides
Q. Perry Smith's personality was portrayed as:
complex
single-minded
extroverted
kind of a Freddy-Krueger-meets-Lord Byron
Q. What word best describes Dick Hickock?
remorseful
callous
charming
It makes me sick to even think about him, so forget it.