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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. After telling her tale, Franny attempts to return to the bathroom. On the way what happens to her?
2. What does Lane tell Franny right before she excuses herself from the lunch table a second time?
3. What has really set Franny on a path of self-destruction?
4. What does Franny tell Lane about her theatre class?
5. As Franny tells Lane the story of the pilgrim, what does Lane do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the reader told that the restaurant is for intellectual types.
2. How do Zooey and Buddy handle the suicide of Seymour?
3. What is the idea behind the Jesus prayer as explained by Franny to Lane?
4. 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?
5. Franny calls Lane a "section man." What is a section man and what does she mean by it?
6. What kind of a character is Lane?
7. How does Bessie view Les as inept?
8. How does the concept of the Glass children being on the radio show add to the depth of the story?
9. Salinger describes the look on Bessie's face right before she leaves the bathroom for the first time that Zooey can not see. What does the look say about the depth of her character?
10. Why does Zooey place the letter on the edge of the tub and play with it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What might the settings of the novel suggest about the tone? Salinger places a private girls' school across the street from the Glasses' apartment. What is the significance of the school to the tone? The imagery of the living room is significant. How does this setting affect the tone? Also, the bathroom is a major setting in the story which also sets the tone of the novel. How does it? In a well-organized essay, explain how the various settings affect the tone of the novel. Avoid plot summary.
Essay Topic 2
Zooey is a character of contradictions. What are those contradictions and are they ever resolved in the story?
Essay Topic 3
At the end of the novel. Zooey makes a phone call to Franny. The call is ironic because Zooey pretends to be someone that he is not. The irony culminates the theme of phoniness in the novel. In a well-organized essay, explain how the phone call is ironic and how it culminates the theme of phoniness.
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