Catcher in the Rye test Questions

Sally Hayes

wants to skaiting partially because she wants to wear a short skirt that she knows will look good on her.

the character whose teeth "looked like mosy and awful" who has "a lot of pimples" and "a terrible personality" is ...?

Ackley

When Holden talks about feeling like hes diusappearing on teh street, he talks to

Allie

Phoebe has what part in the CHristmas Pagent for Americans?

Benedict Arnold

the principal action of the book occurs around which major hioliday?

Christmas

Aboiut what is Holden thinking as he "shoots the bull" with Mr. Spencer?

Ducks in a agoon in Central Park South

Phoebe enjoys writing stories about Hazel Weatherfield. WHich of the following is NOT true about Hazel in the stories?

Hazel's father is an old, ugly man who scares children, including Hazel.

Holden has reytrned early from the fencing meet because?

He lose the foils on the subway.

Which of the following is NOT true about D.B.?

He loves to fish.

What is the difference between what Holden tells Mrs. morrow about her son, Ernest, and what Holden rezlly thinks about her son?

Holden says he is sensitive, whenm in truth, Ernest is as sensitive "as a toliet seat."

After saying that he is "sort of an atheist," Holden talks about....?

How disappointed his is in the disciples.

In his conversation with the two nuns, Holden talks about Shakespeare's Romeon and Huliet, and he reveals that his favoirte character is...?

Meruction

the majority of the novel takes place in?

New York City

Whioch of the folliwing is NOT a true statement about the night that Holden sneaks into his parents' apartment to see Phoebe?

Phebe has a bedspread covered with horses

All of the novels below- or their principal chartacter- are mentioned as favroite by Holden except...?

Pride and Prejudice

Which of the following series of descriptions best fits Holden's description of Allie?

Red haired,kindly, highly intelligent.

Holden says the school is full of "crooks" because why?

Someone stole his camel's hair jacket and his fur lined gloves out of his room.

At least twice in teh novel, Holden imagines...?

Walking around with a bullet in his gut

What question doe sPhoebe ask which Holden fins difficult to answer?

What is one thing you like?

As a favor, Holden writes a composition for Stradlet about...?

a baseball mit covered in poetry

Whast question does the phychoanalyst keep asking Holden?

are you going to apply yourself in school?

Where specifically does Holden imagin a curse word showiing up in his life?

at his grave site on his tombstone

WHy does Hodlen ebcome annoyed with Sally duroing the Lunts show?

because she loves the show and spends both intermissions talking to an "Ivy league phony" who also loved it and with whom she has many common aquaintances.

Holden has failed every subject except...?

english

As his closest comapnin, Phoebe supports Holdens decision to leave Pencey and cries with hoy that he will finally be coming home.

false

At the end of the novl, Holden coldly insists that he doesnt miss any of the people that he has just been talking about

false

Holden is extremely supportive of D.B.'s career

false

Holden is not planning to retur to Pencey int eh spring because he wants a more challenging academic atmosphere and feels he can better find that alesewhere.

false

Holden never contradicts himself

false

Holden never cries in the book

false

Holden thinks of calling Hane Gallagher serveral times throughout the course of the novel, andm infact, does call her twice.

false

J.D. Salinger never expalins the correlation and connection betwene the title of the book and its main chartacter.

false

Throughout the book, Holden constantly asks people toi deliver messages and is thrilled tha tthe messages are all delivered correctly.

false

WHen Phoebe meets Holden at the mueum, he insists that hshe go back to school rather thant agging along with him.

false

Allie died in a car accident

false (Leukemia)

Although Holden seems to enjoy drinking, he prefers to drink alone and rarely invites others to join him

flase

Holden fantasizes about

going west and pretending to be a deaf mute.

Holden thinks he looks very mature because....?

he has some gray hair.

Holden missed Allie's funeral because...?

he was in the hospital with broken hands

As Holden makes his way back to the Edmont, he talks a freat deal about ...?

his own fear and "yellowness"

Holden often refers to himself as a

madman

When Jane Gallagher begins to cry in fron of Holden, her tear falls...?

onto a checkerboard

After leaving Phoebe, Holden goes to see Mr.Antolini, a man Holden admires partly because he...?

picked of Hames Castle's body

While in NY for the fencing meet, Holden bought a ?

red hunting cap

According to Holden, Phoebe is___________ skinny.

roller skater

When Phoebve meets Holden at the musuem

she is carrying a suitcase befcause she insits on comign with him

Holden pays Maurice to have a prostitue come biit him in his hotel room. WHen she arrives, Holden isnt disturbed by the fact that......

she refuses to sleep with him

What does Phoebe do witht he broken pieves of Holden's gift?

she says that shes going to keep them and places them in teh drawer of her bedside table.

Why does Holden like the way Estell Fletcher sings 'little Shirley Beans"?

she sings it "dixieland" and "whorehouse"

Mr.Antolini makes Holden uncomfortable because he..>?

strokes Holden's hiar while he is sleeping

Holden feels depressed while he talks to the nuns because he tnotices

that the nuns are habing only tast and offee while he's eating bacon and eggs

Before he leaves Pencey, Holden thinks of his mother and the thought depresses him. What speciffically does Hodlen think about which makes him sad?

the fact that his mother bought him the wrong kind of ice skates.

Holden gets beat up twice in the novel

true

Holden hears Phoebe signian a song about the Cathcer in the Rye and later uses this terminology to describe his ideal job.

true

Holden insists that he is a consistent liar.

true

Holden is horrified by the way the exhibitionists in the museum never change.

true

WHen he meets Holdena t the Wicher Bar, Carl Luce says, "I refuse to answer typical Caulfield questions," which means that he does not want to asnwer any questions on sex or relationships.

true

While visiting Phoebe's school, he sees dozens of curse words written all over the walls and spends hours trying to wipe them off so the children will not see them.

true

Holden makes the comment that he has not had sex partially because

when a girl asks him to stop he actually does

Holden describes Stradlater as being______ handsome because he's the "type of person your parents would look at and say, 'who's this boy?'"

yearbook