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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 is Zooey's attitude about his acting career as he expresses it to Franny?
(a) He thinks he is a wonderful actor.
(b) He feels all that he does is undermine others' work.
(c) He believes going to Europe will make him a better actor.
(d) He feels everyone in the business is crap.

2. When Zooey mentions that Franny should talk to someone, who is it that she wants to speak with?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her dead brother.
(c) Professor Tupper.
(d) Her brother the priest.

3. What does Franny fill the entire blackboard with?
(a) Love poems.
(b) Mathematical equations.
(c) Song lyrics.
(d) Information about Epictetus.

4. What does Zooey tell Franny he did with Jesus when Zooey was eight-years-old?
(a) He went to church with him.
(b) He had a glass of ginger ale with him.
(c) He broke bread with him.
(d) He acted in a scene with him.

5. Bessie says that when the children were young, they were what?
(a) Sad.
(b) Silly.
(c) Smart and happy.
(d) Frightened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the film about that Zooey made with Dick Hess?

2. What does Zooey say that he and Franny are?

3. What made Franny quit the Bible and go straight to Buddha?

4. In what book of the Bible does the pilgrim find the line, "Pray without ceasing"?

5. After Zooey tells Bessie the story of the pilgrim, how does Bessie react?

Short Essay Questions

1. What theme of the novel is suggested by the quotations on the door of Buddy and Seymour's bedroom?

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

3. Once Zooey arrives at Buddy's phone, he puts himself in "the ready position." What is he readying himself for?

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

5. What is Zooey's opinion of psychoanalysts and Franny?

6. Describe the Glass's living room.

7. 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"?

8. What metaphor does Salinger use to show how badly Franny received what Zooey had to say concerning the Jesus prayer?

9. Zooey attempts to get through to Franny on many levels. One of them is as a daughter. How so?

10. 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?

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