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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does the “English guy” carry in the movie Holden sees?
(a) The Scarlet Letter.
(b) The Great Gatsby.
(c) Oliver Twist.
(d) Moby-dick.

2. What happened after Holden went home?
(a) He ran away.
(b) He got sent to military school.
(c) He got sick.
(d) He was kept under house arrest by his parents.

3. Where did Holden go after leaving Mr. Antolini's apartment?
(a) Grand Central.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Another hotel.
(d) The Museum of Art.

4. Who does Holden say he is at the apartment building to see?
(a) The Spencers.
(b) The Morrows.
(c) Phoebe.
(d) The Dicksteins.

5. Where does Holden go after the ice skating rink?
(a) A cafe.
(b) Home.
(c) A drugstore.
(d) Another hotel.

6. Who does Holden give ten dollars to at breakfast?
(a) The maitre'd.
(b) The waiter.
(c) A homeless man.
(d) Two nuns.

7. Who comes to Holden's door when he is in bed?
(a) A drunken woman.
(b) Sunny.
(c) The hotel manager.
(d) Maurice.

8. What makes Holden feel ill at Mr. Antolini's house?
(a) He is still drunk.
(b) He is hungry.
(c) He needs a cigarette.
(d) He has a headache.

9. What time does Sally arrive to meet Holden?
(a) Two-thirty.
(b) Two o' clock.
(c) One-fifteen.
(d) Ten after two.

10. Where does Holden take Sally after the show?
(a) For hot chocolate.
(b) Ice skating.
(c) Back to his hotel.
(d) For a walk in Central Park.

11. What does Holden accidentally do to two nuns?
(a) Blow smoke in their faces.
(b) Bump into them on the sidewalk.
(c) Step on one of their habits.
(d) Cough on them.

12. Who does Holden say is not as bad as everyone else?
(a) “You.”
(b) His mother.
(c) D.B.
(d) The psychoanalyst.

13. Where is Holden going to go for drinks at ten o' clock?
(a) Ernie's.
(b) The Cotton Club.
(c) The Wicker Bar.
(d) The Lavender Room.

14. Where does Holden take Phoebe?
(a) Radio City Music Hall.
(b) The ice-skating rink.
(c) Home.
(d) The carousel.

15. Who does Holden call at the beginning of Chapter 15?
(a) Room service.
(b) The hotel manager.
(c) Jane Gallagher.
(d) Sally Hayes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality are Tina and Janine?

2. Why does Holden want Carl to stay for one more drink?

3. What illness does a magazine article make Holden think he has?

4. Who does Holden call from his apartment?

5. Where does Holden decide to go at the end of the chapter?

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