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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. What does Franny tell Lane happens to a person who repeats God's name incessantly?
(a) That person gets to see God.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The person dies.
(d) The person has heart trouble.

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

3. The reader knows that Franny is nervous during her telling of the pilgrim because she does what?
(a) She chain smokes.
(b) She keeps telling Lane to eat his snails.
(c) She continuously taps on the table.
(d) She takes continuous sips of her drink.

4. Lane tells Franny that it has been a month since they last did what?
(a) Visited their families.
(b) Slept together.
(c) Drank together.
(d) Danced.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is Zooey related to Franny?

3. What grade did Lane get on his paper?

4. Who introduces the second part of the novel?

5. What does Bessie say about her children when the chips are down?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Franny hesitate to tell Lane anything about the book she is carrying?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Franny explain to Lane about competing?

6. Why does Salinger take the time to list the many items in the medicine cabinet?

7. What kind of a character is Lane?

8. 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?

9. Zooey lashes out at Bessie over Bessie's concern for Franny's lack of appetite. What is it that Zooey tells Bessie she is missing by worrying over food?

10. Why is Lane angry that he received an "A" on his paper?

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