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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 hotel does Holden go to when he first arrives in New York?
(a) Plaza Hotel.
(b) Edmont Hotel.
(c) Whooton Hotel.
(d) Elkton Hills Hotel.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What religion does Ackley follow?

3. Who is D.B.?

4. Why does Holden think Ernie is a phony?

5. What happens to the woman as she gets out of a cab?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Holden decide not to have sex with Sunny? What does he tell her?

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

4. How is Allie's baseball mitt described?

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

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

7. Why does Holden ask Ackley about joining a monastery?

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

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

10. Why does Ackley get on Holden's nerves?

(see the answer keys)

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