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The Catcher in the Rye Test | Authors

"The Catcher in The Rye" is a classic by J. D. Salinger, and is my favorite book.

A multiple-choice quiz by portgleep. Estimated time: 3 mins.

Author
portgleep

Time
3 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
279,799

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
1495

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. How much did Holden Caulfield's red hunting hat cost? Hint

"a buck"

"a dollar fifty"

"five bucks"

"fifty cents"

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Question 2 of 10

2. What is the name of Holden's sister? Hint

Phoebe

Anna

Lily

Holden doesn't have a sister

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Question 3 of 10

3. Where are Bernice, Laverne and Marty from? Hint

Miami, Florida

Chicago, Illinois

San Francisco, California

Seattle, Washington

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Question 4 of 10

4. What was the only subject that Holden doesn't flunk in school? Hint

English

Math

History

Oral Expression

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which character calls Holden "Mac"? Hint

Maurice

the cab driver

the waiter at Ernie's

Stradlater

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which character is studying at Columbia? Hint

Carl Luce

Jane Gallagher

Robert Ackley

Sally Hayes

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Question 7 of 10

7. What did Allie die of? Hint

pneumonia

leukaemia

hepatitis A

encephalitis

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Question 8 of 10

8. What play is Holden's youngest sibling in? Hint

A Patriotic Christmas

New Year's Eve for America

Historic Holiday Season

A Christmas Pageant for Americans

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Question 9 of 10

9. What subject does (did) Mr. Spencer teach? Hint

English

Math

Oral Expression

History

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Question 10 of 10

10. And finally, what is the school Holden is last expelled from? Hint

Penker School for Boys

Peckles High

Pencey Prep

Penn State

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. How much did Holden Caulfield's red hunting hat cost?

Answer: "a buck"

When he tells his dormmate Ackley this, Ackley replies, "You got robbed." Holden keeps his hat with him throughout the book.

2. What is the name of Holden's sister?

Answer: Phoebe

He also has an older brother D.B., a writer in Hollywood, and a recently dead younger brother, Allie.

3. Where are Bernice, Laverne and Marty from?

Answer: Seattle, Washington

They are three women aged "around thirty or so" sitting at the table next to him in the "Lavender Room." He gets up and dances with each of them, but is disappointed because of the fact that they only seem to talk about movies, which he hates. After he dances with them, he fools them all by saying he saw Gary Cooper, the movie star, in the room.

4. What was the only subject that Holden doesn't flunk in school?

Answer: English

According to Holden, the only reason that he passed English is that he has already "had all that Beowulf and Lord Randal My Son stuff when I was at the Whooton School [his previous school]. I mean I didn't have to do any work in English at all hardly, except write compositions once in a while."

5. Which character calls Holden "Mac"?

Answer: the cab driver

There are two cab drivers in the story: the one who calls Holden Mac has a much smaller role than the other, "Horowitz". He asks both of them where the ducks go when the lagoon in Central Park freezes over.

6. Which character is studying at Columbia?

Answer: Carl Luce

Luce went to Whooton when Holden was there, and was his Student Adviser, and Holden thinks of him as an "intellectual".

7. What did Allie die of?

Answer: leukaemia

When he died, Holden broke all the windows in the garage with his fists and broke his hand. Allie loved poetry and had flaming red hair. He wrote down all his poems in green ink on his baseball mitt, which Holden writes an essay about for his roommate Stradlater's homework assignment.

8. What play is Holden's youngest sibling in?

Answer: A Christmas Pageant for Americans

His sister Phoebe plays Benedict Arnold.

9. What subject does (did) Mr. Spencer teach?

Answer: History

Holden pays him a visit at the beginning of the book to say goodbye.

10. And finally, what is the school Holden is last expelled from?

Answer: Pencey Prep

Pencey Prep is an all-boys boarding school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania.

Source: Author portgleep

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