Breakfast at Tiffany's Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1950s

The novella had been accepted for the July 1958 issue of "Harper's Bazaar", but the magazine changed owners and editor-in-chief, and it was decided that the story was not suitable for their target audience. "Esquire" published the novella in its November 1958 issue, and Random House issued a book containing the novella and three short stories later that year. Since then, it has been released several times, in combination with different stories.

The story in the book is set in the 1940s - it starts in 1943, and the fact that it was in the middle of World War II was an important element of proceedings. The movie changed the time to be the 1960s, when Holly's behaviour, while still outrageous, was somewhat more in line with the growing spirit of the times.

Answer: Fred

The narrator is never given a name, but she decides to call him Fred in honor of her brother, who is overseas fighting. Joe is the bartender with whom the narrator is conversing as the reminiscence starts. Doc is the husband she left behind when she moved to New York. Paul is the name of the character in the movie who more or less fills the role of the narrator in Holly's life.

Answer: Holiday

Why Holiday? That's what she wanted out of life. The character is said to have been modeled on Truman Capote's mother, who also abandoned her family for a new life in New York. Then again, any number of celebrities, including Gloria Vanderbilt and Oona O'Neill (daughter of Charlie Chaplin, wife of Eugene O'Neill) and a raft of others whose names are not as familiar now as they were then, have also claimed to have been the original.

Answer: Texas

That is where she married Doc Golightly at the age of 14. Her "poor trash" background is an essential component of her personality, and her desperate desire to escape from the chains in which she felt it confined her motivates much of her reckless behavior.

Answer: Veterinarian

He introduces himself by saying, "I'm a horse doctor, animal man. Do some farming, too. Near Tulip, Texas." He arrives to take Holly back home, to look after her four step-children the way she was expected to. Doc gave Fred and Lulamae a home after their mother died, taught her to play guitar, indulged her desire for magazines and expected little in return. She was still fond of him, but refused to be tied down, as she explained to Joe, the barman.

"Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell," Holly advised him. "That was Doc's mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can't give your heart to a wild thing: the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they're strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That's how you'll end up, Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky."

Answer: Oklahoma!

The narrator reports that she was also fond of Cole Porter and Gershwin, and also included country songs in her repertoire. The choice of music depended on her mood. Given the variety of songs she performed, she must have been either a very accomplished guitar player, or a singer who was satisfied with absolutely minimal chord strumming.

Answer: Her brother's death

The news of her brother's death in action was delivered by means of a telegram from Doc. After Holly had virtually destroyed her apartment in a mixture of rage and sorrow, she seemed to return to her usual behaviour, but there were permanent changes. She never called the narrator Fred again.

Although a Hollywood career had been dangled in front of her by her agent, she was never promised a specific role. Rusty's marriage was of no concern - she had moved on before it happened. Her pregnancy was initially welcomed, as being a way to secure the affections of her diplomat lover, and she laid plans to marry him. She seems to have had second thoughts, though, as her miscarriage in the course of a riding accident immediately prior to her arrest is suggested as being possibly intentional.

Answer: Convicted racketeer

Holly took the train to visit him in Sing Sing every Thursday. She was paid $100 to pretend to be his niece and deliver messages on his behalf. Although she was aware that something fishy was going on, she had no idea what it was, and was happy to get the easy money.

The other occupations apply to some of the other men in Holly's complicated life. José Ybarra-Jaegar was the Brazilian diplomat with whom Holly planned to leave the country. O. J. Berman was a Hollywood agent, the man responsible for turning Holly from a country hick into a social butterfly with a promising future in modeling and (possibly) movies. Mr. I. Y. Yunioshi, a photographer, who lived on the top floor of the brownstone where Holly and the narrator lived. Early on, he was the one whose bell she rang to be let in when she had lost her key, and he was the one who took the photograph which is discussed in the opening part of the story.

Answer: Weather reports

She offered as examples, "There's a hurricane in Cuba" and "It's snowing in Palermo". These messages turned out to be coded instructions for the operation of Sally's narcotics ring, which led to Holly's arrest and subsequent precipitate flight to Rio de Janeiro.

Answer: No

Holly departs for Rio, then Buenos Aires. The narrator promises to find the cat for her, and does so months later, but is never able to get in touch with Holly to let her know. The novella closes, "Flanked by potted plants and framed by clean lace curtains, he was seated in the window of a warm-looking room: I wondered what his name was, for I was certain he had one now, certain he'd arrived somewhere he belonged. African hut or whatever, I hope Holly has, too."

And that takes us back to the start of the novella, when the narrator ran into Joe the bartender, who showed him a photograph, taken by Mr Yunioshi in an African village, of a wooden carving that both men agreed resembled Holly. And the reminiscence began.