The Catcher in the Rye Study Guide

Holden is telling his story from

• Andover
• The Edmont Hotel
• A sanitarium
• Ernie's

What is the name of the last school Holden from which Holden is expelled?

• Elkton Hills
• Classical
• Pencey Prep
• The Whooton School

What is the book that Holden is reading when he is in his dorm room?

• The Last of the Mohicans
• The Great Gatsby
• Out of Africa
• A Farewell to Arms

What did Holden buy during the fencing team's trip to New York?

• A bb gun
• A Mark Cross suitcase
• A red hunting hat
• A pair of ice skates

Why did Holden have to return from New York early?

• One of his team mates got food poisoning
• To watch the last football game of the year
• Holden lost the equipment and they had to forfeit the meet
• There was a threat of a blizzard

Describing his roommate, Holden says Stradlater is

• Scrawny and weak
• Pimply and unattractive
• A Year Book kind of handsome guy who is also a :secret slob
• In need of a shave

Who does Stradlater take on a date?

• Sally Hayes
• Hazel Weatherfield
• Jane Gallagher
• Selma Thurmer

What does Holden write about for Stradlater's composition?

• The Ancient Egyptians
• His old house in Maine
• Allie's baseball mitt
• The Chrysler Building

What did Allie die from?

• Tuberculosis
• The flu
• Leukemia
• Polio

Why does Holden attack Stradlater?

• He made fun of Allie
• He cut his fingernails on Holden's bed
• He refuses to tell Holden about his date with Jane Gallagher
• He blew smoke in Holden's face

Holden loved the way Jane

• Talked about the Lunts
• Looked when she smoked
• Held hands in the movies
• Let her dog go to the bathroom on his lawn

What does Holden do when Stradlater hit him?

• He cries
• He washes the blood off his face
• He goes into Ackley's room
• He kicks over Stradlater's chair and called him a moron

Who does Holden meet on the late train to Manhattan?

• President Eisenhower
• Ernie
• Mrs. Morrow
• Mal Brossard

Who does Holden call when he arrived at Penn Station?

• His mother
• Phoebe
• No one
• D.B.

On his way to the Edmont Hotel, Holden asks the taxi driver if

• He knows how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop
• He will buy his typewriter for thirty dollars
• He knows where the ducks in Central Park South go when the lagoon freezes over
• He can drive him to Colorado

What does Holden see on the other side of the hotel when he checks into his room?

• Robbery
• Soldier sitting on his bed
• Bizarre sex acts
• Two women pacing in their rooms

What does the elevator man at the Edmont offer Holden?

• His pocket watch
• Pair of gold cufflinks
• Prostitute
• Drugs

Holden tells Sunny he can't sleep with her because

• She has bad teeth
• He has a girlfriend
• He just had an operation on his clavichord
• He's too tired

What do Holden and the nuns discuss at the sandwich counter?

• Joining a monastery
• Converting to Catholicism
• Romeo and Juliet
• Saving souls

How much does Holden donate to the nuns?

• thirty-five dollars
• Twenty five dollars
• Ten dollars
• One dollar

What does Holden hear when he is wandering around Broadway?

• Police sirens
• Couple arguing
• Little boy singing If a body catch a body coming through the rye
• Dogs barking

What does Holden buy for Phoebe?

• Stack of notebooks
• Dozen roses
• Little Shirley Beans record
• The Bible

Why does Holden love the Museum of Natural History?

• That the birds look exactly like the ducks in the lagoon
• That no goddam phonies ever went there
• That everything always stayed right where it was
• That this one crazy Indian always reminds [him] of Allie

Phoebe believes that Holden

• Is selfish
• Smokes too much
• Doesn't like anything
• Has poor taste in women

Why does Holden leave Mr. Antolini's suddenly?

• He left the oven on at home
• He as an appointment at noon
• He thinks Mr. Antolini made sexual advancements towards him
• Mrs. Antolini did not want Holden in her house