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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lane feel after Franny leaves the lunch table?
(a) The weekend is not looking good.
(b) Worried.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Happy she is gone.

2. What was being taken out of the body of the lovely woman in the story told on the plane?
(a) Her heart.
(b) Her liver.
(c) Blood.
(d) Pus.

3. The pilgrim in the book that Franny has been reading is searching for what?
(a) God.
(b) A way to pray incessantly.
(c) A better life.
(d) Heaven.

4. What happened to Bessie's truly lighthearted son, Walt?
(a) He was killed in WWII.
(b) He became a great actor.
(c) He left home and was never heard from again.
(d) He married and had children.

5. For what occasion is Frannie visiting Lane?
(a) Lane's birthday.
(b) A Yale dance.
(c) The Yale Game.
(d) Their aniversary dinner.

6. How does Lane react to the pilgrim story?
(a) He tells Franny to stop talking about it.
(b) He wants to begin praying immediately.
(c) He thinks it is stupid.
(d) He says that it is interesting.

7. What does Les want to give Franny to make things better for her?
(a) Counseling.
(b) A pet.
(c) A tangerine.
(d) Money.

8. Buddy tells Zooey that if Zooey performs beautifully on stage, Buddy do will do what?
(a) He and Seymour will rent tuxedos and hats and come to the stage.
(b) Buddy will get him a bigger role.
(c) Buddy will get Seymour to be an actor.
(d) Buddy will watch every show Zooey performs in after that.

9. What does Zooey say about Bessie's interpretation of religion?
(a) Bessie has no idea what she is talking about.
(b) The message of the New Testament is to take shorter baths.
(c) Bessie needs to go to church to learn something.
(d) That Bessie believes the message of the New Testament is an improper diet.

10. What made Buddy want to write to Zooey?
(a) The death of their brother.
(b) Bessie's letter.
(c) Two young girls.
(d) Franny's breakdown.

11. What was Lane's paper about?
(a) Flaubert.
(b) Freud.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Tolstoy.

12. What does Franny tell Lane is the reason why she can't lend him the pilgrim book that she has been reading?
(a) It is overdue.
(b) She had stolen it.
(c) It is not hers to lend.
(d) It is Zooey's.

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

14. Why does Franny regret asking for Lane's olive?
(a) She does not like olives.
(b) The olives make her ill.
(c) It made Lane angry that she interrupted him.
(d) He hates when she takes his food from him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession was Bessie in when she was younger?

2. What does Lane want Franny to do with the paper he wrote for his class?

3. How old was Franny when Seymour died?

4. What does Waker say of the way Zooey handled the loss of Seymour?

5. When Frannie and Lane get in the cab, Frannie feels what?

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