ICB Part One Questions

Question 1

The novel is written in

Answer 1

3rd person omniscient

Question 2

The murder takes place in

Answer 2

Holcomb, Kansas

Question 3

What year does the murder take place?

Answer 3

1959

Question 4

Members of the family who were killed

Answer 4

Mrs. Bonnie Clutter, Mr. Herb Clutter, Nancy Clutter, Kenyon Clutter

Question 5

Mr. Clutter’s job is

Answer 5

farmer

Question 6

Mr. Clutter doesn’t want Nancy and Bobby Rupp to date because

Answer 6

The Clutters are Methodist and the Rupps are Catholic.

Question 7

Nancy does not attend the 4H meeting the day of the murder because

Answer 7

she stayed back to teach a neighbor how to bake a pie and her father attended

Question 8

What does Nancy keep thinking she smells the day of the murder?

Answer 8

cigarette smoke

Question 9

On the day of the murder, what does Nancy tell Susan Kidwell she is worried about

Answer 9

Her father’s mood lately

Question 10

What item does Mrs. Bonnie Clutter giver their neighbor, Joline (who came to bake the pie) before she leaves

Answer 10

a tiny paper fan

Question 11

Who has tatoos of a cat, a bouquet of flowers, and a blue rose?

Answer 11

Perry

Question 12

Where did Dick and Perry meet?

Answer 12

Kansas State Penitentiary

Question 13

What is Dick’s “regular” job?

Answer 13

He is a mechanic

Question 14

Why is Dick’s face misaligned?

Answer 14

He was disfigured in a car accident

Question 15

Why is Perry an asprin addict?

Answer 15

He tries to manage his pain from a motorcycle accident

Question 16

What organization did Herb Clutter never join?

Answer 16

Garden City Country Club

Question 17

What club were Herb, Nancy, and Kenyon all a members of?

Answer 17

4H

Question 18

What did Perry want to use / buy for the murder that Dick thought was useless?

Answer 18

black stockings

Question 19

What kept Kenyon from playing sports?

Answer 19

his eyesight

Question 20

Whose car was seen in the Clutter’s driveway the day of the murders?

Answer 20

the Insurance agent’s

Question 21

Who does Perry believe is his “real” and only friend?

Answer 21

Willie Jay

Question 22

What odd nickname does Dick have for Perry?

Answer 22

sugar

Question 23

When Perry is first introduced in the book, where is he?

Answer 23

waiting for Dick at a cafe

Question 24

Why is Perry breaking the law just by sitting in the cafe?

Answer 24

Because it is in Kansas and returning to Kansas is forbidden as part of his parole

Question 25

Perry dreams of a life where he

Answer 25

lives in Mexico searching for treasure

Question 26

Mrs. Bonnie Clutter has the medical condition of

Answer 26

depression and anxiety

Question 27

Mrs. Clutter had recently returned from a stay at a medical facility where she came to believe that her depression and anxiety all due to

Answer 27

an issue with her spine

Question 28

Why was Dick running late to meet Perry?

Answer 28

he had to wait until his father wasn’t around to avoid having him see Dick take the gun

Question 29

How many children does Dick have?

Answer 29

Three sons

Question 30

The description of driving toward Holcomb and seeing “a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples” has what main literary device?

Answer 30

What is a simile

Question 31

The description of driving toward Holcomb and seeing “a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples” is comparing what to what?

Answer 31

farming to religion

Question 32

While the town of Holcomb doesn’t seem fancy, the people of the town are financially comfortable because of

Answer 32

natural gas

Question 33

On the day of the murder, Mr. Clutter discovered

Answer 33

a group of hunters on his land without permission

Question 34

What is the ironic statement Mrs. Ashida says to Mr. Clutter on the drive home from 4H?

Answer 34

That she can’t imagine him ever being afraid

Question 35

Who walks from their home to the farm after hearing about the murders?

Answer 35

Bobby Rupp

Question 36

Who does Bess Harman fear is the killer?

Answer 36

Someone local

Question 37

Although Mr. Clutter had is throat cut, all of them were?

Answer 37

shot

Question 38

Who discovered the Clutter family?

Answer 38

Susan Kidwell and Nancy Ewalt

Question 39

What is different about how Mr. Clutter was murdered?

Answer 39

His throat was cut

Question 40

What was the primary reason Perry returned to Kansas?

Answer 40

To meet Willie Jay when he made parole.

Question 41

What does Nancy Clutter tell a teacher that let’s us know she tends to stay up later than the rest of the family?

Answer 41

She likes private time to go through her beauty routine.

Question 42

Why is Bobby Rupp so careful and specific with details about his time with the Clutters the night of the murder and about the time he left?

Answer 42

He knows he is a suspect and he wants to help

Question 43

As an adult, Capote was friends with

Answer 43

The rich and famous of New York society

Question 44

Truman Capote is though to be the inpiration for what other literary character?

Answer 44

Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird

Question 45

Capote became interested in the Clutter murders when

Answer 45

when he read a newspaper story about it

Question 46

During the time period of the murders, people were intrigues and so shocked because in general they tended to be more concerned with what?

Answer 46

invasion form outside sources/countries and not crimes within their own country

Question 47

The genre Capote created with this novel is

Answer 47

the nonfiction novel

Question 48

Capote and Lee were investigating in Kansas when

Answer 48

the murderers were caught

Question 49

The toll that the research for and writing of this book took on Capote led to his

Answer 49

alcoholism and drug addiction

Question 50

When Capote was younger, his mother tried to “toughen him up” by

Answer 50

sending him to military school