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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 do when he arrives at the hotel?
(a) Get a room.
(b) Call Jane.
(c) Watch girls.
(d) Smoke a cigarette.

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

3. What hotel is the Wicker Bar in?
(a) The Edmont Hotel.
(b) The Biltmore Hotel.
(c) The Plaza Hotel.
(d) The Seton Hotel.

4. 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.

5. What cheers Holden up as he walks?
(a) A boy singing as he walks on the sidewalk.
(b) A girl that reminds him of Phoebe.
(c) A boy walking his dog.
(d) A girl skipping and humming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Carl go to school?

2. Where does Holden go instead of looking for Phoebe?

3. What aspect of Eastern culture does Carl say he likes better than Western?

4. What does Holden think will happen to him when he crosses streets?

5. Who does Holden call at the beginning of Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Holden feel bad about blowing smoke in the nuns' faces?

2. How has Carl changed when Holden meets him at the Wicker Bar?

3. Why does Holden put his suitcases under his bed at Elkton Hills?

4. Why does Holden want to be the “catcher in the rye?”

5. Why does Holden think it does not seem like Christmas is coming soon?

6. Why does Holden call Sally when he is drunk?

7. Why is Holden drawn to the boy singing as he walks down the street?

8. Why does it make Holden sad when Phoebe asks why he got kicked out of Pencey?

9. Why does Holden scold Phoebe for putting ink on Curtis Weintraub's windbreaker?

10. Why did it bother Holden that the boys in his Oral Expression class yelled “Digression!” during speeches?

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