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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. Where does Holden decide to go at the end of the chapter?
(a) Home.
(b) Jane's house.
(c) Another hotel.
(d) Grand Central Station.

2. Who does Holden talk to when he feels depressed?
(a) God.
(b) Ackley.
(c) Allie.
(d) Phoebe.

3. What happened after Holden went home?
(a) He got sick.
(b) He was kept under house arrest by his parents.
(c) He ran away.
(d) He got sent to military school.

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

5. What do Holden and Phoebe do when he goes back to D.B.'s room?
(a) Get a sandwich from the kitchen.
(b) Dance.
(c) Go to sleep.
(d) Talk about Holden's future.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phoebe eat for dinner?

2. Who does Holden try to pick up as he leaves the Wicker Bar?

3. What finally ends the conversation between Mr. Antolini and Holden?

4. Who comes to Holden's door when he is in bed?

5. What is a “flit?”

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Holden so upset when Phoebe tells him to shut up?

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

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

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

5. Why does Holden say he would volunteer to sit on an atomic bomb if there is another war?

6. Why does Holden feel better when he is looking around D.B.'s room?

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

8. Why does Holden end the novel where he does?

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

10. Why is Phoebe angry when she realizes Holden got kicked out of Pencey?

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