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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Zooey say is odd about Franny's breakdown?
(a) It isn't real.
(b) She chooses the place to have it.
(c) She can't explain it.
(d) She decides to sleep on the couch.

2. What was the film about that Zooey made with Dick Hess?
(a) A farmer who moves to the city.
(b) A drunk.
(c) A dancer.
(d) A romance of a young man falling in love.

3. What is Zooey's attitude about his acting career as he expresses it to Franny?
(a) He feels everyone in the business is crap.
(b) He believes going to Europe will make him a better actor.
(c) He feels all that he does is undermine others' work.
(d) He thinks he is a wonderful actor.

4. What does Franny fill the entire blackboard with?
(a) Information about Epictetus.
(b) Song lyrics.
(c) Love poems.
(d) Mathematical equations.

5. The book that Zooey suggests Bessie read is called what?
(a) "God's Prayer."
(b) "You and God."
(c) "God Is My Friend."
(d) "God Is My Hobby."

6. What does Franny do at the end of the phone call?
(a) She sleeps comfortably in her mother's bed.
(b) She goes to the kitchen for chicken broth.
(c) She goes back to the couch to sleep soundly.
(d) She goes back to the couch in tears.

7. What kind of a skull does Zooey want when he is dead?
(a) A happy one.
(b) A buried one.
(c) A perfectly shaped one.
(d) An honorable one like Yorick's.

8. Why doesn't Zooey want Franny to smile at him?
(a) Her smile is crooked.
(b) It gives him the creeps.
(c) Seymour used to smile at him.
(d) She does not do it wholeheartedly.

9. Besides furniture, what is Buddy's room filled with?
(a) Books.
(b) Sporting equipment.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Paintings.

10. What does Zooey say that he and Franny are?
(a) Freaks.
(b) Nerds.
(c) Psychos.
(d) Weirdos.

11. All of the following describe the Glass living room except which one?
(a) It is lined with bookshelves.
(b) It is stuffed with furnishings.
(c) The walls are covered with documents.
(d) It is dark and gloomy.

12. Where is the phone that Franny answers?
(a) In the living room.
(b) In the bathroom.
(c) In Buddy's room.
(d) In her mother's bedroom.

13. When Zooey mentions that Franny should talk to someone, who is it that she wants to speak with?
(a) Her dead brother.
(b) Professor Tupper.
(c) Her brother the priest.
(d) Her father.

14. Zooey feels less frightened about Franny's need to say the prayer because she did what when she first started?
(a) She came home.
(b) She made plans to go to Russia.
(c) She called her mother.
(d) She went to see Buddy.

15. What is Franny doing while she has her conversation with Zooey in the living room?
(a) She is eating.
(b) She is sleeping.
(c) She is reciting the prayer.
(d) She is picking fleas off of the cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Zooey tells Bessie the story of the pilgrim, how does Bessie react?

2. What does Zooey believe Franny is using the prayer for?

3. What does Franny worry about in her search for the prayer?

4. In what book of the Bible does the pilgrim find the line, "Pray without ceasing"?

5. Zooey says that the only thing that counts in the religious life is what?

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