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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Phoebe challenge Holden to do?
(a) Graduate school.
(b) Name one person who isn't phony from Pencey.
(c) Grow up.
(d) Think of one thing he likes.

2. What does Holden say about money?
(a) It makes you jealous.
(b) It makes you happy.
(c) It makes you crazy.
(d) It makes you blue.

3. What aspect of Eastern culture does Carl say he likes better than Western?
(a) Education.
(b) Hinovel.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Philosophy.

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

5. Where is Phoebe when Holden arrives?
(a) In the kitchen.
(b) In the living room.
(c) In D.B.'s room.
(d) In Holden's room.

6. What class does Holden tell Mr. Antolini about?
(a) Oral Expression.
(b) Western Civilizations.
(c) Seventeenth-century Poetry.
(d) American Hinovel.

7. What does Mr. Antolini do while Holden waits for the elevator?
(a) He tries to block Holden's path.
(b) He goes back to bed.
(c) He stands in the doorway.
(d) He gets loud and angry.

8. What nationality are Tina and Janine?
(a) German.
(b) French.
(c) British.
(d) Swedish.

9. How does Holden's date with Sally end?
(a) They get a hotel room together.
(b) Holden leaves.
(c) Holden walks her home.
(d) Sally storms out.

10. Who does Holden call from his apartment?
(a) Mr. Spencer.
(b) Jane Gallagher.
(c) Mr. Antolini.
(d) No one; he changes his mind at the last minute.

11. Who goes into the men's room while Holden is there?
(a) The bartender.
(b) The piano player.
(c) Carl.
(d) A barfly.

12. What does Mr. Antolini think is going to happen to Holden?
(a) He is going to fall.
(b) He is going to have to move to Colorado.
(c) He is going to get sent to military school.
(d) He is going to succeed at anything he wants to do.

13. What does Holden imagine while he was at the bar?
(a) He was a big-shot Hollywood screenwriter.
(b) He was waiting for his wife.
(c) He had a bullet in his guts.
(d) He was deaf.

14. Where did Holden room with Harris Macklin?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Elkton Hills.
(c) Whooton School.
(d) Pencey Prep.

15. What does Holden see outside at the beginning of Chapter 14?
(a) Maurice and Sunny talking.
(b) The “perverts.”
(c) Snow falling.
(d) The sun coming up.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Holden hide when he hears his parents come home?

2. What play is Phoebe in at school?

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

4. What book does the “English guy” carry in the movie Holden sees?

5. Where did Holden go after leaving Mr. Antolini's apartment?

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