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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 Bessie say about her children when the chips are down?
(a) Boo Boo and Buddy are the only ones who help.
(b) Everyone pitches in.
(c) They are not there to help.
(d) Only Waker will help.

2. What does Buddy lecture about at the college where he works?
(a) Zen and Buddhism.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Catholicism.
(d) Poetry.

3. What did Seymour tell Buddy was his "wooden leg"?
(a) Kind heartedness.
(b) Cleverness.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Ego.

4. When the reader first meets Zooey, what is Zooey doing?
(a) Reading a script.
(b) Reading a letter while bathing.
(c) Speaking with his mother.
(d) Rehearsing his lines.

5. What is the name of the television show that the Glass children acted in?
(a) "It's A Wise Child."
(b) "Questions for Wise Children."
(c) "Wise Ones."
(d) "Precocious Children."

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of year is it?

2. What made Buddy want to write to Zooey?

3. The reader knows that Franny is nervous during her telling of the pilgrim because she does what?

4. What does Bessie continuously do while talking to Zooey?

5. What is happening to Franny's forehead while she is having lunch with Lane?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. When the reader first meets Franny, she seems flighty. How so?

3. How do Zooey and Buddy handle the suicide of Seymour?

4. How does Franny feel as she tells Lane about the story of the pilgrim?

5. When Franny tells Lane that she believes she is going crazy, do you feel that she is serious?

6. How does Bessie view Les as inept?

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

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

9. Why has Franny left her acting troupe?

10. Lane speaks of two poets who teach at Franny's school that he wishes were at his school. Franny says that they are not real poets. What does she mean?

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