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Trivia: Catcher In The Rye

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1. What item best symbolizes adulthood for Holden?
Vicks Nose Drops
The Secret Goldfish
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
Vulgarity scrawled on walls

2. Just before he leaves her room - Phoebe gives Holden
His razor
Two nuns
Her Christmas money
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield

3. In what month does the novel take place?
December
Likes Romeo and Juliet
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
He thinks Mr. Antolini made a pass at him.

4. As Holden predicted - Sally is excited to
The 39 Steps
He lost the fencing team's equipment
See the Lunts
Vulgarity scrawled on walls

5. What possession of Allie's does Holden write about in a descriptive theme paper?
Ossenburger
Grand
Two nuns
His baseball glove

6. Who does not symbolize Holden's views of sex?
Likes Romeo and Juliet
Sunny
Vicks Nose Drops
Leukemia

7. What is one of Holden's least favorite words?
The ducks
Grand
He lost the fencing team's equipment
Ossenburger

8. With whom does Holden discuss Romeo and Juliet?
He has prematurely graying hair.
December
He's just had an operation on his 'clavichord.'
Two nuns

9. Holden claims he can't sleep with Sunny because...

10. What smell permeates Mr. Spencer's home?
Vulgarity scrawled on walls
A record titled 'Little Shirley Beans'
Vicks Nose Drops
Play checkers

11. Holden claims he can't sleep with Sunny because...

12. In what month does the novel take place?
Pencey Prep
Gary Cooper
Holden's dream job
December

13. Once back in New York - the first person Holden tries to invite for a drink is
A cab driver
His razor
His razor
He lost the fencing team's equipment

14. Who is Holden's roommate in the dorm?
A prostitute
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
Ward Stradlater
The Secret Goldfish

15. What is the name of the benefactor of Holden's dormitory wing?
Ossenburger
A poem by Robert Burns
Allie Caulfield
Pencey Prep

16. What is the significance of Stradlater's razor?
He's just had an operation on his 'clavichord.'
Shows how the conceited Stradlater is actually a slob
Holden's dream job
His razor

17. What does Holden buy for Phoebe?

18. What does Holden buy for Phoebe?

19. Whom does Phoebe play the part of in the Christmas play?
A poem by Robert Burns
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
Benedict Arnold
He has prematurely graying hair.

20. What is the name of Holden's favorite short story by his brother?
Gary Cooper
Vicks Nose Drops
Jane Gallagher
The Secret Goldfish

21. What is the significance of Stradlater's razor?
He thinks Mr. Antolini made a pass at him.
Shows how the conceited Stradlater is actually a slob
The Secret Goldfish
The 39 Steps

22. What animals in Central Park does Holden worry about?
Play checkers
His razor
The ducks
He repeatedly insults Maurice - resulting in further physical punishment.

23. What school did Holden get expelled from?
Pencey Prep
Gary Cooper
Ossenburger
Her Christmas money

24. As Holden predicted - Sally is excited to
Jane Gallagher
See the Lunts
Shows how the conceited Stradlater is actually a slob
To a matinee and a skating rink

25. As he prepares to leave New York City - Holden repeatedly encounters
The 39 Steps
Joining a monastery
He thinks Mr. Antolini made a pass at him.
Vulgarity scrawled on walls

26. What is one of Holden's least favorite words?
Grand
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.
A poem by Robert Burns
Doesn't like anything

27. Holden nostalgically remembers the way Jane Gallagher used to
See the Lunts
Play checkers
His baseball glove
Vicks Nose Drops

28. Holden nostalgically remembers the way Jane Gallagher used to
Her Christmas money
Play checkers
Ward Stradlater
Pacifist

29. After his encounter with Maurice - Holden

30. What is the name of the benefactor of Holden's dormitory wing?
Ossenburger
Pacifist
Vicks Nose Drops
He's just had an operation on his 'clavichord.'

31. After Holden checks into his room at the Edmont Hotel - what does he see out of his window?
To a matinee and a skating rink
Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms'
Shows how the conceited Stradlater is actually a slob
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel

32. What smell permeates Mr. Spencer's home?
'That everything always stayed right where it was'
Pencey Prep
Vicks Nose Drops
December

33. Why does Holden believe that everyone mistakes him for an older person?
Two nuns
He has prematurely graying hair.
Her Christmas money
Stradlater refuses to answer Holden's questions about his date.

34. As he prepares to leave New York City - Holden repeatedly encounters
Vicks Nose Drops
Vulgarity scrawled on walls
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
Holden's dream job

35. Who is Ward's date on Saturday night?
Play checkers
A mental hospital
Vicks Nose Drops
Jane Gallagher

36. According to Holden - he knew he was happy when he was
The ducks
A variety of bizarre sex acts going on in other rooms of the hotel
Holding hands with Jane
Play checkers

37. Holden leaves Mr. Antolini's apartment because
He's just had an operation on his 'clavichord.'
Holding hands with Jane
Holden's dream job
He thinks Mr. Antolini made a pass at him.

38. What is D.B.'s profession?
Play checkers
Grand
Sunny
Hollywood screenwriter

39. Just before he leaves her room - Phoebe gives Holden
See the Lunts
Likes Romeo and Juliet
Ward Stradlater
Her Christmas money

40. Holden was forced to return early to school from New York because...

41. How did Allie die?
He lost the fencing team's equipment
Leukemia
Her Christmas money
The ducks

42. With whom does Holden discuss Romeo and Juliet?
A mental hospital
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield
Ward Stradlater
Two nuns

43. Who is Holden's roommate in the dorm?
Grand
He's just had an operation on his 'clavichord.'
'That everything always stayed right where it was'
Ward Stradlater

44. What is D.B.'s profession?
He's just had an operation on his 'clavichord.'
He thinks Mr. Antolini made a pass at him.
Hollywood screenwriter
He has prematurely graying hair.

45. Phoebe chastises Holden because - in her mind - he

46. According to Holden - what is 'the best thing' about the Museum of Natural History?

47. Who is Ward's date on Saturday night?
Sunny
Leukemia
Jane Gallagher
Pretends he's a movie character who has been shot

48. Which of the following things does Holden NOT like?

49. Contrasting him with the annoying and sloppy Ackley - Holden describes Stradlater as a...

50. What is the name of Holden's favorite short story by his brother?
The Secret Goldfish
The 39 Steps
To a matinee and a skating rink
Phoebe Weatherfield Caulfield