The Catcher in the Rye Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Catcher in the Rye Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 110 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Holden make while Ackley gets ready?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Tea.
(c) A snowball.
(d) A paper airplane.

2. What is Phoebe's favorite movie?
(a) The Wizard of Oz.
(b) Bang the Drum Slowly.
(c) The 39 Steps.
(d) The Baker's Wife.

3. What does Holden's cab smell like?
(a) Cigarette smoke.
(b) Vomit.
(c) Feet.
(d) Pretzels.

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

5. How does Holden know the person he runs into at Ernie's?
(a) Through a friend.
(b) From Pencey Prep.
(c) Through Phoebe.
(d) Through D.B.

6. What does Holden do when Stradlater reacts to the composition he has written?
(a) He leaves the room.
(b) He cries.
(c) He smokes a cigarette.
(d) He tears it up and throws it away.

7. Who is D.B.?
(a) The narrator of the novel.
(b) Ackley's brother.
(c) This is not revealed.
(d) Holden's brother.

8. What did Holden help Jane improve?
(a) Her dancing.
(b) Her golf game.
(c) Her social skills.
(d) Her English grade.

9. What does the elevator operator offer Holden?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A cigarette.
(c) A cheaper place to stay.
(d) A stolen watch.

10. Where does Holden decide to go at the end of the chapter?
(a) Back to Pencey Prep.
(b) Back to the Lavender Room.
(c) Ernie's.
(d) Home.

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

12. What book did Holden mistakenly borrow from the library?
(a) Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
(b) Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham.
(c) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.
(d) Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen.

13. What does Mr. Spencer offer Holden before he leaves?
(a) Hot chocolate.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Scotch.
(d) Hot tea.

14. Who does Maurice send up to Holden's room?
(a) Sunny.
(b) The manager.
(c) Ackley.
(d) Phoebe.

15. What essay does Mr. Spencer read to Holden?
(a) An essay about New York.
(b) Holden's essay on the Egyptians.
(c) Mr. Spencer has Holden read the essay.
(d) Stradlater's essay that Holden wrote.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holden say he had an operation on?

2. What does Holden trip on as he goes into Ackley's room?

3. What does Holden write the composition about?

4. What religion does Ackley follow?

5. What does Stradlater do as he shaves at the beginning of the chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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