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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What year is it when Zooey and Bessie are talking in the bathroom?
2. When Frannie and Lane get in the cab, Frannie feels what?
3. What was Lane's paper about?
4. What does Buddy lecture about at the college where he works?
5. What does Zooey say about Bessie's interpretation of religion?
Short Essay Questions
1. While in the bathroom, how does Zooey treat Bessie?
2. Salinger describes the look on Bessie's face right before she leaves the bathroom for the first time that Zooey can not see. What does the look say about the depth of her character?
3. Through Bessie's dialogue, the reader can infer why Buddy does not own a phone. Why is that?
4. How do Zooey and Buddy handle the suicide of Seymour?
5. What kind of a character is Lane?
6. How does the concept of the Glass children being on the radio show add to the depth of the story?
7. What is the idea behind the Jesus prayer as explained by Franny to Lane?
8. What themes are brought up by Buddy's letter?
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. What might the reason be for Franny breaking down in the bathroom instead of with the boy she claims to love.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain the relationship between Franny and her siblings through the concept of conflict. What conflicts are created? How do those conflicts lead to the complexities of the characters/ How do those conflicts drive the plot. Avoid plot summary in writing a well-organized essay addressing the topic.
Essay Topic 2
How does Seymour's strong influence affect the characters of Franny and Zooey? In a well-organized essay, discuss the influence of Seymour and its significance to the characters of Franny and Zooey in the decisions that they make throughout the novel.
Essay Topic 3
Setting is crucial to any story as to the development of a character. Salinger sets the bulk of the story of Franny and Zooey in the bathroom. What does the setting of the bathroom do to drive the characters of Bessie and Zooey? What does it say about each of them individually? What does it say about their relationship to each other?
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