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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 does Holden trip on as he goes into Ackley's room?
(a) A shoe.
(b) Something unidentified on the floor.
(c) A shower curtain.
(d) A chair.

2. Who is the woman Holden talks to on the ride to New York?
(a) Stradlater's sister.
(b) The headmaster's wife.
(c) Ackley's aunt.
(d) Ernest Morrow's mother.

3. What does Holden's cab smell like?
(a) Cigarette smoke.
(b) Pretzels.
(c) Vomit.
(d) Feet.

4. What does Holden do when Stradlater reacts to the composition he has written?
(a) He leaves the room.
(b) He smokes a cigarette.
(c) He cries.
(d) He tears it up and throws it away.

5. How does Holden entertain himself in the bathroom?
(a) By kicking the stall doors.
(b) By clogging the sink drains.
(c) By tap-dancing.
(d) By flushing the toilets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What religion does Ackley follow?

3. What does Holden try to order at the club?

4. What essay does Mr. Spencer read to Holden?

5. Who does Holden tell the girls in the club he saw?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Holden say he was glad to meet the Navy guy even though he is not?

2. What five people does Holden think of calling when he arrives at Penn Station?

3. Why does Ackley grunt a response when Stradlater says hello to him?

4. Why does Holden get nervous when he talks to Stradlater in the bathroom?

5. Why does Ackley get on Holden's nerves?

6. Why does Holden ask Ackley about joining a monastery?

7. How does Holden wish he had handled his missing gloves as opposed to how he would likely have handled it?

8. What two reasons does Holden give for not talking about his early childhood?

9. Why does Stradlater criticize Holden's composition about Allie's baseball mitt?

10. Why does Holden like that Jane puts her hand on the back of his neck?

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