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

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

3. What is Franny's dream about?
(a) Diving into a pool over and over again.
(b) The prayer.
(c) Lane.
(d) Her dead brother.

4. Zooey feels less frightened about Franny's need to say the prayer because she did what when she first started?
(a) She called her mother.
(b) She made plans to go to Russia.
(c) She went to see Buddy.
(d) She came home.

5. Why doesn't Zooey want to leave New York?
(a) His family is in NY.
(b) It is his hometown.
(c) He is afraid to travel.
(d) He hates every other city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Franny doing while she has her conversation with Zooey in the living room?

2. Where is the phone that Franny answers?

3. Why did Seymour tell Zooey to shine his shoes for the radio show?

4. Over the phone, Zooey suggests to Franny that she find her help where?

5. How does Zooey treat Hess when Hess offers him a new script?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Bessie saying about her relationship with her children when she states to Zooey that when they were little they were so happy and smart--"just lovely"?

2. How is it ironic that Franny tells Zooey that he is the most unsympathetic person that she has ever known?

3. Zooey finally confronts Franny about the Jesus prayer. He points out she is being hypocritical. How so?

4. Why is Zooey so upset that Dick came to town and wanted Zooey to go out for drinks with him?

5. What issue does Bessie have over the way Zooey feels about Lane?

6. Why does Salinger include Bloomberg in the scene between Franny and Zooey?

7. How does Zooey feel about Lane and why does he feel this way?

8. Zooey is visibly upset when Bessie mistakenly believes that Franny's little green book came from the college library. Why does this bother Zooey so much?

9. What does the setting of the Glasses' living room say about the character of Bessie?

10. How would you interpret Franny's dream?

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