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Trivia: Catcher In The Rye
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1. What is the name of Holden's favorite short story by his brother?
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
Play checkers
The Secret Goldfish
2. The elevator operator at the Edmont offers to get Holden...
Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'
He has prematurely graying hair.
A prostitute
Gary Cooper
3. The elevator operator at the Edmont offers to get Holden...
A prostitute
Pencey Prep
Jane Gallagher
He has prematurely graying hair.
4. Who is Ward's date on Saturday night?
Vulgarity scrawled on walls
Jane Gallagher
A record titled 'Little Shirley Beans'
Play checkers
5. Contrasting him with the annoying and sloppy Ackley - Holden describes Stradlater as a...
6. What item of clothing did Holden buy during the team's trip to New York?
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
A red hunting hat
Vicks Nose Drops
Grand
7. What item best symbolizes adulthood for Holden?
Vicks Nose Drops
The Secret Goldfish
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
8. Which of the following things does Holden NOT like?
9. Holden nostalgically remembers the way Jane Gallagher used to
Play checkers
Vulgarity scrawled on walls
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
Joining a monastery
10. According to Holden - what is 'the best thing' about the Museum of Natural History?
11. Holden was forced to return early to school from New York because...
12. Holden tells the girls he saw ________ at the Lavender Room.
Holden's dream job
'Secret slob'
Gary Cooper
Ossenburger
13. Just before he leaves her room - Phoebe gives Holden
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
He lost the fencing team's equipment
Her Christmas money
Shows how the conceited Stradlater is actually a slob
14. Holden tells the girls he saw ________ at the Lavender Room.
Gary Cooper
A prostitute
Grand
'Secret slob'
15. Which of the following things does Holden NOT like?
16. Who is Holden's roommate in the dorm?
He repeatedly insults Maurice - resulting in further physical punishment.
Ward Stradlater
Hollywood screenwriter
Grand
17. As Holden predicted - Sally is excited to
He repeatedly insults Maurice - resulting in further physical punishment.
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
The ducks
See the Lunts
18. What smell permeates Mr. Spencer's home?
See the Lunts
Benedict Arnold
Vicks Nose Drops
Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'
19. Who does not symbolize Holden's views of sex?
Vulgarity scrawled on walls
Holding hands with Jane
Sunny
'That everything always stayed right where it was'
20. In what month does the novel take place?
Holden's dream job
Allie Caulfield
December
Ward Stradlater
21. What is one of Holden's least favorite words?
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
Leukemia
Grand
He repeatedly insults Maurice - resulting in further physical punishment.
22. Holden leaves Mr. Antolini's apartment because
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
He thinks Mr. Antolini made a pass at him.
Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'
Play checkers
23. What school did Holden get expelled from?
Shows how the conceited Stradlater is actually a slob
Pencey Prep
Ward Stradlater
Her Christmas money
24. What is the name of the benefactor of Holden's dormitory wing?
Pacifist
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
Ossenburger
His razor
25. Holden was forced to return early to school from New York because...
26. After Holden fights Stradlater - what does he think about?
Joining a monastery
A poem by Robert Burns
See the Lunts
He repeatedly insults Maurice - resulting in further physical punishment.
27. As he prepares to leave New York City - Holden repeatedly encounters
Jane Gallagher
'Secret slob'
Vulgarity scrawled on walls
A poem by Robert Burns
28. What possession of Allie's does Holden write about in a descriptive theme paper?
His baseball glove
The ducks
Ossenburger
He lost the fencing team's equipment
29. Why does Holden believe that everyone mistakes him for an older person?
A poem by Robert Burns
He has prematurely graying hair.
See the Lunts
A red hunting hat
30. What item of clothing did Holden buy during the team's trip to New York?
A red hunting hat
Two nuns
He repeatedly insults Maurice - resulting in further physical punishment.
Grand
31. Who is Holden's roommate in the dorm?
Play checkers
Ward Stradlater
He lost the fencing team's equipment
Vulgarity scrawled on walls
32. Who is Ward's date on Saturday night?
Jane Gallagher
He has prematurely graying hair.
A record titled 'Little Shirley Beans'
His razor
33. Whom does Phoebe play the part of in the Christmas play?
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
Benedict Arnold
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
Vicks Nose Drops
34. What is the name of the benefactor of Holden's dormitory wing?
A prostitute
He thinks Mr. Antolini made a pass at him.
The ducks
Ossenburger
35. According to Holden - what is 'the best thing' about the Museum of Natural History?
36. What school did Holden get expelled from?
Ward Stradlater
Pencey Prep
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
37. As Holden predicted - Sally is excited to
Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'
See the Lunts
Allie Caulfield
To a matinee and a skating rink
38. According to Holden - what item shows that Stradlater is a phony?
His razor
The 39 Steps
Gary Cooper
Doesn't like anything
39. Where does the title of the novel come from
Benedict Arnold
Two nuns
A poem by Robert Burns
The Secret Goldfish
40. Where does the title of the novel come from
A poem by Robert Burns
Holden's dream job
To a matinee and a skating rink
A record titled 'Little Shirley Beans'
41. What is D.B.'s profession?
Hollywood screenwriter
Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'
Ward Stradlater
Doesn't like anything
42. What character symbolizes childhood innocence for Holden?
Ossenburger
Pencey Prep
Allie Caulfield
A record titled 'Little Shirley Beans'
43. Whom does Phoebe play the part of in the Christmas play?
His baseball glove
Joining a monastery
Benedict Arnold
Holden's dream job
44. After Holden checks into his room at the Edmont Hotel - what does he see out of his window?
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
'That everything always stayed right where it was'
Pretends he's a movie character who has been shot
Holding hands with Jane
45. At breakfast - Holden is surprised that the nun
Likes Romeo and Juliet
Grand
Play checkers
Sunny
46. What is one of Holden's least favorite words?
Jane Gallagher
Doesn't like anything
To a matinee and a skating rink
Grand
47. In what month does the novel take place?
The ducks
He lost the fencing team's equipment
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
December
48. What animals in Central Park does Holden worry about?
The ducks
Allie Caulfield
Vulgarity scrawled on walls
Joining a monastery
49. Who does not symbolize Holden's views of sex?
Hollywood screenwriter
December
Sunny
Two nuns
50. Once back in New York - the first person Holden tries to invite for a drink is
A cab driver
Holding hands with Jane
'That everything always stayed right where it was'
The ducks