Phonies, flits & hot-shots: Salinger's "Catcher"

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1. Blowhard Pencey grad who made "a pot of dough" in the cut-rate undertaking business, and had a wing of the school named after him. James Castle Morrow Ossenburger Carl Luce

2. Which of the following statements best characterizes Horwitz' hypothesis about the wildlife in the lake in Central Park? "They fly away by themselves-- go south or something" "The old ladies and all, they feed 'em" "Their bodies take in nutrition and all, right through the.. seaweed and crap that's in the ice" "Wudga say? I got no time to be thinkin' about ducks, Mac"

3. "...what a gorgeous job for a guy around sixty-five years old". Taxi driver Parking valet Christmas tree mover Bellhop

4. Holden's objection to Olivier as Hamlet: "He wasn't even Danish and all. God, how I hate the movies" "too much like a ... general, instead of a sad, screwed-up guy" "You just knew that he'd be one of those guys that wouldn't say hello to you in the street." Too "flitty"

5. "It's a funny thing about girls. Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard-- very mean, or very conceited and all... she'll tell you: "he's really this very humble, modest kind of guy" "he's really a grand person, once you get to know him. "he has an inferiority complex" "he's really a sensitive guy. Sensitive. That kills me"

6. Phoebe wrote books about her, but never finished them. Sally Weatherfield Hazel Caulfield Hazel Weatherfield Sunny Weatherfield

7. To whom does Holden say, "Hey, I got a flit for you. At the end of the bar. Don't look now. I been saving him for ya."? Harris Macklin Ernest Morrow Carl Luce Dick Slagle

8. "Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right..." What is Holden referring to? Prep School Football Life Fencing

9. Why Holden doesn't want to be a lawyer All you do is go around investing in a lot of plays that lose money, for God's sakes..." "It's a clique. All the lawyers stick together, all the doctors stick together..." "You have to laugh at every partner's stupid jokes before they'll do anything for you" "All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot."

10. What does NOT appall Holden at Ernie's night club? Ernie "putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high notes" "these three sad, stupid girls from Seattle who spent the whole time looking around for movie stars" Ernie giving "this very phony, humble bow" The crowd ..."were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny"