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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Holden try to order at the club?
(a) Scotch and soda.
(b) Coke.
(c) Red wine.
(d) Water.

2. What operation does Holden tell the woman he has to have?
(a) He has to have a kidney transplant.
(b) He does not give any details about the operation.
(c) He is having his appendix out.
(d) He has to have a brain tumor removed.

3. What does Holden see a man do when he looks out his hotel window?
(a) Hang himself.
(b) Feed a woman grapes.
(c) Tap-dance naked.
(d) Put on women's clothes.

4. What does Holden say he had an operation on?
(a) His liver.
(b) His clavichord.
(c) His kidney.
(d) His elbow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Holden write the composition about?

2. What religion does Ackley follow?

3. Who does Maurice send up to Holden's room?

4. What illness does Mr. Spencer have?

5. Who does Holden run into at Ernie's?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Holden think Jane cried when her stepfather asked about his cigarettes?

2. How is Allie's baseball mitt described?

3. Compare and contrast Ackley and Stradlater, according to Holden's descriptions.

4. Why does Holden stay at Ernie's even though “jerks and phonies” surround him?

5. Why does Holden refer to D.B.'s writing in Hollywood as prostitution?

6. What five people does Holden think of calling when he arrives at Penn Station?

7. Why does Stradlater criticize Holden's composition about Allie's baseball mitt?

8. Why does Holden shout to the boys in his dorm as he leaves?

9. Why does Holden feel bad about not telling Mrs. Morrow his real name?

10. Why does Ackley grunt a response when Stradlater says hello to him?

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