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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Zooey tells Bessie the story of the pilgrim, how does Bessie react?
(a) She wants Franny to see a priest.
(b) She becomes angry.
(c) She becomes very worried for Franny.
(d) She wonders if Franny is searching for the prayer.

2. What does Franny do at the end of the phone call?
(a) She goes back to the couch to sleep soundly.
(b) She sleeps comfortably in her mother's bed.
(c) She goes to the kitchen for chicken broth.
(d) She goes back to the couch in tears.

3. Where is Zooey going to have lunch on the afternoon of his long bath?
(a) On a film lot.
(b) At a friends.
(c) Downtown.
(d) With Franny.

4. What does Franny tell Zooey of her night with Lane?
(a) It was fun.
(b) She loved the restaurant.
(c) That she ruined it because she could not stop complaining.
(d) Lane and she admitted their love for each other.

5. Zooey says that when one first begins the prayer, one should do what, as told in the pilgrim's tale?
(a) Be under the supervision of a qualified teacher.
(b) Find a good church to go to.
(c) Keep saying the prayer.
(d) Find a monk.

6. What is Bessie admiring that makes Zooey angry?
(a) The way he shaves.
(b) His shirt.
(c) His socks.
(d) His back.

7. What role does Dick Hess want Zooey to play?
(a) A cowboy.
(b) A sensitive young subway guard.
(c) A city slicker.
(d) A romantic young man.

8. What does Zooey tell Franny that he and Buddy did that she was unaware of?
(a) They went to see her in summer stock.
(b) They went and spoke with Lane after first meeting him.
(c) They went to the college to visit her.
(d) They went to chuch together.

9. Zooey tells Bessie that living a religious life takes what?
(a) Time and dedication.
(b) Faith.
(c) A strong church.
(d) A good priest.

10. What problem do the Glasses have with conversation?
(a) They don't like to talk.
(b) They don't talk, they expound.
(c) They rarely have conversations.
(d) They are too smart for others.

11. Who is Zooey afraid Franny's crusade will hurt?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Franny.
(c) A wonderful college professor of Zooey's.
(d) Franny's college friends.

12. Who does Franny tell Bessie that she wants to talk to?
(a) Her brother Seymour.
(b) A psychoanalyst.
(c) Nobody.
(d) Her brother the priest.

13. What was the film about that Zooey made with Dick Hess?
(a) A dancer.
(b) A romance of a young man falling in love.
(c) A drunk.
(d) A farmer who moves to the city.

14. What does Franny worry about in her search for the prayer?
(a) That wanting it may not be enough to find it.
(b) That wanting it will separate her from those she loves.
(c) That wanting it may make her crazy.
(d) That wanting it makes her no different than those who want material things.

15. Who does Franny first believe is on the phone after her conversation with Zooey is over?
(a) Buddy.
(b) Seymour.
(c) Zooey.
(d) Waker.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zooey shout at his mother as she leaves the bathroom?

2. After Zooey upsets Franny, what is she trying to get him to do?

3. What color is the bathmat?

4. What does Franny say that she and Zooey have in common?

5. Zooey tells Franny that she should stop her behavior for what reason?

(see the answer keys)

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