The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger

What record was Holden looking for?

"Little Shirley Beans"

What song was the little boy humming on the street?

"If a body catch a body coming through the rye."

How old is Sunny?

"Old enough to know better"

What does Holden say as he leaves Pencey?

"Sleep tight, ya morons!"

What question does Holden ask Ackley when he wakes him up?

"What's the routine on joining a monastery? . . . Do you have to be a Catholic and all?"

How many years older is Luce than Holden?

3

How many schools has Holden been kicked out of?

4

What is Phoebe riding at the end of the chapter?

A carousel

What does Carl Luce recommend to Holden?

A psychoanalyst

What kind of hat did Holden buy in New York?

A red hunting cap

What does Holden call Sunny?

A royal pain in the ass

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

Ackley

Where did Holden go immediately after the fight?

Ackley's room

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

Allie

When Phoebe asks Holden what he likes, what does he tell her he does like?

Allie, their brother that died

What does Mr. Antolini tell Holden that will help him?

An academic education, "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."

Phoebe has what part in the CHristmas Pagent for Americans?

Benedict Arnold

Why did James Castle jump out the window at Elkton Hills?

Bullies were coming for him because he wouldn't take back something he said about one of the bullies

How does Holden get to New York?

By train

What does Holden first want to do when he gets to Penn Station?

Call someone

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

Christmas

In whose room did Phoebe sleep?

D.B.'s room

What are Holden and Phoebe doing just before his mother gets home?

Dancing and talking

What does Holden dislike the most about the bible?

Disciples

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

Ducks in a agoon in Central Park South

What is the only class that Holden passed?

English

What was the only class that Holden passed during the grading period?

English

What did Holden leave on the subway?

Fencing equipment

Who does Holden "see" that gets the girls so excited?

Gary Cooper

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.

What did Holden ask the cab driver?

He asked where the ducks from the Central Park lagoon go in the wintertime.

After they see a play and go skating, what does Holden ask Sally to do?

He asks her to run away with him and get married

Why does Holden apologize to the two nuns?

He blew smoke in their faces

Why does Holden decide not to take his own life?

He didn't want a bunch of "rubbernecks" looking at him

What excuse does Holden give her for declining?

He had an operation on his "clavichord"

Why isn't Holden able to fall asleep in Ackley's room?

He keeps thinking about Jane and Stradlater in Ed Banky's car.

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 did Holden do with the composition?

He ripped it up

Why does Maurice come into Holden's room?

He says Holden owes Sunny five more dollars when Holden actually owes him nothing

What does Stradlater say that makes Holden try to punch him?

He says that he and Jane just sat in Ed Banky's car during their date and refuses to give any more details, saying, "that's a professional secret, buddy."

How does Holden lie about Ernie Morrow to his mother?

He tells her that Ernie's a good kid and that he's popular

Why does Holden call Faith Cavendish?

He wanted a girl to come over

Holden tells Phoebe that he wants to be a "catcher in the rye." What does he mean by this?

He wants to protect children from losing their innocence

Why does Holden go to Phoebe's school?

He wants to tell Phoebe where to meet him so he can say goodbye

Why didn't Holden go to Allie's funeral?

He was in the hospital after he hurt his hands trying to break all the windows in his garage.

What was Holden thinking about as he was talking to Mr. Spencer?

He was wondering where the ducks from the Central Park lagoon went when it froze over.

Holden recalls a summer with Jane and the time he kissed her when she was crying. Why was she crying?

Her stepfather

What did Mr. Spencer make Holden read to him?

His Egyptian essay-paper-exam thing

What did Holden write a composition about?

His brother Allie's baseball glove

What does Holden's father do?

His father works as a corporation lawyer who's always investing money in shows on Broadway.

Where does he go at the end of the chapter?

His home

What does Holden want to talk to Carl Luce about (Luce calls "a typical Holden Caulfield conversation")?

His sex life, relationships with girls

Why do Holden and Sally get into a fight?

Holden had gotten irritated when Sally introduced him to a phony Ivy League guy named George at the show.

Mr. Antolini tells Holden that he is headed for a fall. What does he mean by this?

Holden is trying to do something that's impossible

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."

Where did Holden take Sally for their date?

Holden took Sally to watch a matinee performance of "I Know My Love." Later, the two go ice skating at Radio City and have Cokes.

Why does Maurice punch Holden?

Holden wouldn't give him the money and he called him a moron

Why did Stradlater punch Holden?

Holden wouldn't stop talking about Jane and kept calling him a moron and insulting him

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

How disappointed his is in the disciples.

What type of car does DB drive?

Jaguar

What bothered "the hell" out of Holden?

Jane's sadness and her trying to hide it by rubbing her tear into the checkerboard

What is Phoebe's real middle name?

Josephine

What year of high school is Holden in?

Junior

What was the name of the room that Holden goes to in the hotel?

Lavender Room

Who does Holden see at Ernie's?

Lillian Simmons

What is the name of the pimp Holden meets?

Maurice

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

Meruction

Who were the three girls looking for in the bar?

Movie stars, Peter Lorre

Does Holden win the fight with Stradlater?

NO

the majority of the novel takes place in?

New York City

What kind of operation does Holden tell Mrs. Morrow that he has to have?

One to remove a brain tumor

What book is Holden reading again when Ackley comes into the room?

Out of Africa

What exactly did Holden wake up to find Mr. Antolini doing?

Patting his head

Where did Holden go to school?

Pencey Prep

What does Holden see out of the hotel window?

People in their windows, weirdos/perverts

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

For whom does Holden buy a record?

Phoebe, Little Shirley Beans

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

Pride and Prejudice

Where does Holden go to kill time before he meets Carl Luce?

Radio City Music Hall (the movies)

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

Red haired,kindly, highly intelligent.

When does Holden say, "Sleep tight, ya morons!"?

Right before he leaves Pencey

Who does Holden call from the bar?

Sally

Why did Phoebe hit Holden?

She found out he got kicked out of Pencey

What does Phoebe do that makes Holden cry just before he leaves?

She tries to give him her Christmas money ($8.65)

What does Holden admire about the blonde (of the three girls) in the bar?

She was a great dancer

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.

Why did Holden do what he did to his composition?

Stradlater didn't like it, he was annoyed because he was supposed to write about a room

TRUE/FALSE Holden had Allie's baseball mitt in his suitcase.

TRUE

Describe Ackley.

Tall, annoying, fidgety, unhygenic

What book does Holden say he appreciates at the end of chapter 18?

The Great Gatsby

Where does Holden wait for Phoebe?

The Museum of Art

What book did DB write that is a favorite of Holden's?

The Secret Goldfish

When Holden asks Horowitz the cab driver about ducks in the pond, what does Horowitz talk about instead?

The fish in the pond

Where does Holden sleep?

The waiting room in Grand Central Station

What does Holden think girls use as an excuse to date jerks?

They say the guy has an inferiority complex.

How did Holden know Stradlater's date, Jane Gallagher?

They used to live near each other and hung out over the summer, Holden really liked her.

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?

What bar does Holden meet Luce at?

Wicker Bar

What was Holden's brother D.B. doing at the time?

Working in Hollywood writing movies

The book ens with Holden saying, "Don;t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." Briefly explain what you think he means by this.

You add meaning to people in your life with every piece of yourself that you reveal to them

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

a baseball mit covered in poetry

Who is Ernie?

a big fat colored guy that plays the piano at a night club in Greenwich Village

What/Who does Holden see at the Edmont Hotel?

a variety of bizarre sex acts

According to Holden, Ernest is?

an insensitive person who was "doubtless the biggest bastard that ever went to Pencey"

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.

What game would Jane and Holden play together?

checkers

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)

What does the lobby at the hotel smell like?

fifty million dead cigars

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

flase

What does Thurmer compare life to?

game

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"

Luce tells Holden that he is what?

immature

Holden often refers to himself as a

madman

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

onto a checkerboard

What does Holden think of Thurmer?

phony slob

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

picked of Hames Castle's body

Who did Luce suggest that Holden go see?

psychoanalyst

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

red hunting cap

What does Holden buy in New York for a dollar?

red hunting hat

According to Holden, Phoebe is___________ skinny.

roller skater

What type of slob is Stradlater according to Holden?

secret slob

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"

What does Holden do in their room that Stradlater doesn't like?

smokes a cigarette

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

strokes Holden's hiar while he is sleeping

What does Holden talk to Sally about at the bar?

tells her he'll come and help her trim the tree on Christmas Eve

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

Who did Holden tell the elevator operator he was going to visit?

the Dicksteins (his family's neighbors)

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.

Who does Holden sit next to on the train?

the mother of Ernest Morrow (one of Holden's classmates at Pencey Prep)

Why did Sunny and Maurice come back to Holden's room?

to pick up the five dollars that they think he owes them

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

Who did Holden meet in the little sandwich bar?

two nuns

Sally Hayes

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

What did Holden and Jane do after they made out?

went to a movie

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

when a girl asks him to stop he actually does

What favor does Stradlater ask of Holden?

write a descriptive composition for English

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