'Catcher In The Rye'
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The American Library Association calls the novel "a favorite target of censors. " Its place in libraries and schools has been challenged on many grounds, including sex, violence, coarse language and drinking. Ten questions about the story:
- 1.Narrator Holden Caulfield frequently refers to sex as:
- A.
Trotting her out
- B.
Feeling her fabric
- C.
Giving her the time
- D.
Giving her the business
- 2."This is a people shooting hat," Holden tells a classmate in reference to:
- A.
His Pencey Prep uniform cap
- B.
His high school baseball cap
- C.
A deer-hunting cap
- D.
A stocking cap knitted by his sister, Phoebe
- 3.After his younger brother's death from leukemia, Holden:
- A.
Went up on the roof and wouldn't come down
- B.
Broke his hand smashing windows
- C.
Stole his grandmother's car and drove to Manhattan
- D.
Let his neighbor's sheep out of their pen
- 4.Holden's classmate James Castle killed himself by what method?
- A.
He slit his wrists in an empty locker room.
- B.
He jumped from a school window.
- C.
He stepped in front of an express train.
- D.
He overdosed on pills stolen from his mother.
- 5.From his room at the Edmont Hotel, Holden sees a man in a nearby building:
- A.
Smoking marijuana
- B.
Setting the curtains on fire
- C.
Playing a violin in the nude
- D.
Wearing women's lingerie
- 6.Though he drinks several Scotch and sodas in the course of the story, Holden says he prefers:
- A.
Rum and coke
- B.
Frozen daiquiris
- C.
Harvey's Bristol Cream
- D.
Chocolate milk
- 7.The prostitute who comes to Holden's hotel room is named:
- A.
Sunny
- B.
Trixie
- C.
Magdalena
- D.
Jane
- 8.Holden says "Jesus probably would've puked" if he were to see:
- A.
The living nativity in Central Park
- B.
The FAO Schwarz Christmas display
- C.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
- D.
The Radio City Music Hall Christmas show
- 9.Former classmate Carl Luce is seen by his peers as an authority on homosexual celebrities, whom Holden calls:
- A.
Poofs
- B.
Twinks
- C.
Flits
- D.
Woots
- 10.Holden describes as "being perverty" the unwanted attention of:
- A.
Former teacher Mr. Antolini
- B.
Teacher Mr. Spencer
- C.
Fellow student Robert Ackley
- D.
Cab driver Horwitz
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