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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of the letter, Buddy tells Zooey to do what?
(a) Turn off the private phone.
(b) Come to the country for a visit.
(c) "Act with all of your might."
(d) Be good to Bessie.

2. Why does Franny keep apologizing at lunch with Lane?
(a) She hates frog legs.
(b) She leaves the table many times.
(c) She has hurt Lane's feelings.
(d) She is in a bad mood.

3. Why doesn't Buddy go home after Seymour's funeral?
(a) He lives too far away.
(b) He is too sad.
(c) He can't face his mother.
(d) He is afraid.

4. In what tone does Zooey talk to his mother?
(a) Sarcastic and demeaning.
(b) Warm and loving.
(c) Bitter.
(d) Humorously.

5. How does Lane react to what happens to Franny at the end of the chapter entitled Franny?
(a) He is worried about Franny.
(b) He finds the whole thing amusing.
(c) He is angry.
(d) He is embarrassed.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Zooey related to Franny?

2. Who does Zooey say Bessie should invite to join them in the bathroom?

3. What made Buddy want to write to Zooey?

4. What has really set Franny on a path of self-destruction?

5. Where does Franny excuse herself to at SIcklers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What themes are brought up by Buddy's letter?

2. When Buddy writes of Seymour's suicide, he says that " I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight." What anecdote does he use to explain this and what does Buddy mean by it?

3. Why is the reader told that the restaurant is for intellectual types.

4. Zooey is described as being beautiful. Why did Salinger create him that way?

5. While in the bathroom, how does Zooey treat Bessie?

6. Why has Franny left her acting troupe?

7. Right from the start, Franny and Lane do not seem to be a couple who are dedicated to each other or their relationship. How is this shown though characterization in the opening pages leading to the point where Franny excuses herself to the ladies' room?

8. Why does Zooey place the letter on the edge of the tub and play with it?

9. What kind of a character is Lane?

10. Salinger has Buddy begin the Zooey chapter of the book although Zooey himself will continue the story. Why might Salinger use the character of Buddy when he is not physically there when Franny has her breakdown?

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