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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Holden write the composition about?
(a) His dorm room.
(b) His red hunting cap.
(c) Stradlater's razor.
(d) Allie's baseball glove.

2. What is Holden doing when Stradlater returns?
(a) Writing the composition.
(b) He doesn't remember.
(c) Packing.
(d) Making a snowball.

3. What religion does Ackley follow?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Quaker.
(d) Jewish.

4. How does Holden entertain himself in the bathroom?
(a) By tap-dancing.
(b) By flushing the toilets.
(c) By clogging the sink drains.
(d) By kicking the stall doors.

5. Who is the janitor's wife?
(a) Mrs. Schmidt.
(b) Mrs. Spencer.
(c) Mrs. Brossard.
(d) Mrs. Banky.

6. Who is the woman Holden talks to on the ride to New York?
(a) Ackley's aunt.
(b) The headmaster's wife.
(c) Stradlater's sister.
(d) Ernest Morrow's mother.

7. How many fights does Holden claim he has been in?
(a) Too many to count.
(b) One.
(c) Seven.
(d) Two.

8. What does Holden ask the cab driver about?
(a) A good place to eat breakfast.
(b) If he'd read D.B.'s book.
(c) The Museum of Art.
(d) The ducks in the lagoon.

9. Who made Jane cry when she and Holden were playing checkers?
(a) Her step-father.
(b) Holden.
(c) Holden's mother.
(d) Her mother.

10. What game does Holden want to play with Ackley?
(a) Chess.
(b) Cribbage.
(c) Canasta.
(d) Checkers.

11. What illness does Mr. Spencer have?
(a) Grippe.
(b) A cold.
(c) It is not known.
(d) Leukemia.

12. What kind of hat does Holden wear?
(a) A ski mask.
(b) A hunting hat.
(c) A fedora.
(d) Allie's baseball cap.

13. Whose car did Stradlater use for his date?
(a) The headmaster's.
(b) The basketball coach's.
(c) The fencing coach's.
(d) His own.

14. Who is Stradlater's date?
(a) Sally.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Jean.
(d) Jane.

15. Where do Mal and Holden want to go?
(a) New York.
(b) The quad.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Agerstown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Holden say he left Elkton Hills?

2. How did Allie die?

3. Who is Robert Ackley?

4. What does Holden reveal about himself in the first sentence of Chapter 3?

5. Who comes to Holden's mind as he leaves the club?

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