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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Zooey (pgs. 119-147).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Zooey banging on the piano keys?
(a) He is angry about having to go out for a drink.
(b) He is angry that Franny won't eat.
(c) He is angry at Bessie and Les for playing the piano for Franny.
(d) He is angry at Franny for her troubles.

2. What is Franny doing while she has her conversation with Zooey in the living room?
(a) She is sleeping.
(b) She is reciting the prayer.
(c) She is eating.
(d) She is picking fleas off of the cat.

3. What does Zooey say is his Achilles' heel?
(a) His looks.
(b) Franny.
(c) He is sensitive to beauty.
(d) His intelligence.

4. In diagnosing herself, Franny claims that her problem involves all of the below answers EXCEPT which one?
(a) She is going insane.
(b) She is physically ill.
(c) She hates herself.
(d) She is an egomaniac.

5. How has Bessie been handling the problem with Franny?
(a) She tells Franny to get up off of the couch.
(b) She has called a psychiatrist.
(c) She paints the apartment.
(d) She makes her chicken broth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zooey do after Bessie leaves the bathroom?

2. Lane tells Franny that it has been a month since they last did what?

3. Why doesn't Zooey want to leave New York?

4. Why is Bessie so upset with her husband?

5. What does Lane tell Franny right before she excuses herself from the lunch table a second time?

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