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

2. Where is the second place Holden intends to look for Phoebe?
(a) At the park.
(b) Rockefeller Center.
(c) At the museum.
(d) School.

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

4. What does Holden get for breakfast?
(a) A sausage sandwich.
(b) A biscuit.
(c) Doughnuts.
(d) A scrambled egg.

5. Where does Holden go instead of looking for Phoebe?
(a) Grand Central Station.
(b) The Biltmore.
(c) The park.
(d) The museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Holden get punched?

2. What cheers Holden up as he walks?

3. Where does Holden decide to go at the end of the chapter?

4. What terrible thing happens as Holden gets to the park?

5. Where did Holden sleep after leaving Mr. Antolini's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Holden decide that he should not feel sorry for girls who marry bores?

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

5. What does it reveal about Holden when he finally tells Phoebe what he likes?

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

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

8. Why does Holden want to move to the West and pretend to be a deaf-mute?

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

10. Why does Holden almost wish his parents caught him sneaking out of the apartment?

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