Catcher in the Rye Quiz 7 (Chapters 19-21)

How does Holden annoy Carl Luce at the bar?

• Holden keeps asking him very personal and uncomfortable questions about Carl's romantic life

• Holden is so nervous that he keeps tapping his fingers on the table and biting his nails

• Holden keeps taking drinks from Carl's drink

• Holden keeps asking Carl for favors, like giving him a ride home

What does Carl suggest Holden should do?

• Go home early and confess to his parents that he was kicked out of school

• Date an older woman

• Get psychoanalyzed

• Visit him at school after Christmas

Who does Holden call from the phone booth when he is drunk?

• His parents

• Stradlater

• Sally Hayes

• Maurice

What does Holden offer to do for the person he calls from the phone booth?

• Write their final essay for English class

• Decorate their Christmas tree

• Loan them money for Christmas presents

• Take them out to dinner

When Holden leaves the bar and has no place to go, where does he walk and why?

• Central Park to look for the ducks at the lagoon

• Sally Hayes' house to try and wake her up and see if she will run away with him

• Another bar where he meets up with Jane Gallagher

• Back to the hotel he stayed in the night before to tell Maurice he wants his money back

What does Holden accidentally break that makes him cry?

• his arm

• his front tooth

• a record he bought for Phoebe

• the glass of scotch he's drinking

When Holden's hair starts to freeze, what does he imagine in great detail?

• A search party combing through the park and finding his frozen body

• Growing wings and flying south for the winter with the ducks

• All of the details of his own funeral after he dies of pneumonia

• How warm and comfortable his room and bed would be if he went back to his dorm at Pencey Prep

When Holden counts his money and sees he only has a couple of one dollar bills and some quarters left, what does he do with the quarters?

• Throws them in the lagoon

• Gives them to a homeless person

• Uses them to buy a bus ticket home

• Buys another drink

What does Phoebe invite Holden to that Friday?

• The school play that she's starring in

• A dinner with the family

• Her graduation from elementary school

• Her birthday party

Why does Phoebe get upset with Holden at the end of the reading?

• He's smoking in her room

• He broke her present

• He read her notebook

• He got kicked out of school