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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 has really set Franny on a path of self-destruction?
(a) A book that has made her question her existence.
(b) Her poor acting in the play.
(c) Her mother's crazy ways.
(d) Her relationship with Lane.

2. In the letter that Buddy writes, he suggests a future for Zooey that his mother also wants for Zooey. What is the suggestion?
(a) For Zooey to find a wife.
(b) For Zooey to get his PhD.
(c) For Zooey to continue to be an actor.
(d) For Zooey to move out of the house.

3. Why doesn't Buddy go home after Seymour's funeral?
(a) He lives too far away.
(b) He is afraid.
(c) He is too sad.
(d) He can't face his mother.

4. What does Zooey say is his Achilles' heel?
(a) His looks.
(b) His intelligence.
(c) Franny.
(d) He is sensitive to beauty.

5. What becomes of Franny's sandwich?
(a) Lane eats it.
(b) Franny eats it.
(c) The waiter takes it away uneaten.
(d) It falls on the floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long passes before Buddy returns home after Seymour's funeral?

2. What is the name of the television show that the Glass children acted in?

3. Why don't Franny and Lane have dessert?

4. What profession was Bessie in when she was younger?

5. Who introduces the second part of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What might the reason be for Franny breaking down in the bathroom instead of with the boy she claims to love.

2. How do Zooey and Buddy handle the suicide of Seymour?

3. Why is Lane angry that he received an "A" on his paper?

4. What does Franny explain to Lane about competing?

5. Zooey is described as being beautiful. Why did Salinger create him that way?

6. Zooey lashes out at Bessie over Bessie's concern for Franny's lack of appetite. What is it that Zooey tells Bessie she is missing by worrying over food?

7. Salinger has Buddy begin the Zooey chapter of the book although Zooey himself will continue the story. Why might Salinger use the character of Buddy when he is not physically there when Franny has her breakdown?

8. How does Bessie view Les as inept?

9. When Buddy writes of Seymour's suicide, he says that " I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight." What anecdote does he use to explain this and what does Buddy mean by it?

10. Why does Salinger take the time to list the many items in the medicine cabinet?

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