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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Robert Ackley?

2. What favor does Stradlater ask of Holden?

3. What is the school Holden attends at the beginning of the novel?

4. What does Holden shout as he leaves the dorm?

5. How did Allie die?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Holden wish he had handled his missing gloves as opposed to how he would likely have handled it?

3. Why does Holden say he was glad to meet the Navy guy even though he is not?

4. Why does Mrs. Morrow think her son is not a good mixer with other boys?

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

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

7. Why does Holden like writing about Allie's baseball mitt?

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

9. How is Allie's baseball mitt described?

10. Why is Holden so upset when he discusses Stradlater's date?

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