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

Created by coolupway

Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Salinger, J. D.
Phonies flits  hotshots  Salingers Catcher game quiz
"If you really want to know about it, you should try this dopey quiz, for god's sakes. It's about "Catcher in the Rye". Old Salinger. He's this terrific WRITER and all. "

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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.
    Morrow
    James Castle
    Carl Luce
    Ossenburger


2. Which of the following statements best characterizes Horwitz' hypothesis about the wildlife in the lake in Central Park?
    "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"
    "They fly away by themselves-- go south or something"


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


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 a grand person, once you get to know him.
    "he has an inferiority complex"
    "he's really a sensitive guy. Sensitive. That kills me"
    "he's really this very humble, modest kind of guy"


6. Phoebe wrote books about her, but never finished them.
    Hazel Caulfield
    Hazel Weatherfield
    Sunny Weatherfield
    Sally 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."?
    Ernest Morrow
    Carl Luce
    Dick Slagle
    Harris Macklin


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?
    Football
    Prep School
    Fencing
    Life


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..."
    "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."
    "You have to laugh at every partner's stupid jokes before they'll do anything for you"
    "It's a clique. All the lawyers stick together, all the doctors stick together..."


10. What does NOT appall Holden at Ernie's night club?
    The crowd ..."were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny"
    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"

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