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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 Zooey say is his Achilles' heel?
(a) His intelligence.
(b) Franny.
(c) His looks.
(d) He is sensitive to beauty.
2. When Bessie leaves the bathroom, what does she tell Zooey to do?
(a) Wash his hair.
(b) Shave.
(c) Get out to the bathtub.
(d) Use the bathmat.
3. How does Lane react to what happens to Franny at the end of the chapter entitled Franny?
(a) He is embarrassed.
(b) He is angry.
(c) He finds the whole thing amusing.
(d) He is worried about Franny.
4. What does Zooey do after Bessie leaves the bathroom?
(a) He gets out of the tub.
(b) He reads his manuscript.
(c) He throws the washcloth.
(d) He stares at the closed door.
5. What becomes of Franny's sandwich?
(a) Franny eats it.
(b) Lane eats it.
(c) It falls on the floor.
(d) The waiter takes it away uneaten.
Short Answer Questions
1. For lunch, what does Franny order?
2. What does Bessie wear while at home?
3. How does Lane feel about the grade he received on his paper?
4. Why is Bessie so upset with her husband?
5. Why does Franny love the married couple in the pilgrim's story in the book that she is reading?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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. When Franny tells Lane that she believes she is going crazy, do you feel that she is serious?
4. How does the concept of the Glass children being on the radio show add to the depth of the story?
5. What kind of a character is Lane?
6. Why is the reader told that the restaurant is for intellectual types.
7. While in the bathroom, how does Zooey treat Bessie?
8. What might the reason be for Franny breaking down in the bathroom instead of with the boy she claims to love.
9. What themes are brought up by Buddy's letter?
10. What does Bessie's attire say about her character?
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