The Catcher in the Rye - Chapters 9 - 18 Review

Who is Holden Caulfield?

• He is an up and coming movie star in Hollywood.

• He is a psychiatrist at a well-known hospital in California.

• He is a sixteen-year-old student at a prep school in Pennsylvania.

• He is a writer for a New York newspaper.

Where is Holden as he narrates the story?

• He is on a plane flying to Europe.

• He is at a rest home (hospital) in California.

• He is in the school library.

• He is at his parents' house in New York.

Where does Holden go once he gets to the city?

• Straight home to talk to Phoebe

• Right to his old English teacher's apartment

• He checks his bags at Grand Central and sleeps on a park bench

• To a seedy hotel called the Edmont

What does Holden see outside his seedy hotel window?

• A man wearing women's clothes.

• A woman dancing alone with a mannequin.

• A man and a woman squirting water at each other with a water gun.

• A man with a gun.

Who does Holden call from the hotel room after spying on people in the other room?

• Faith Cavendish, a possibly promiscuous girl, whose number he has

• Phoebe, his sister

• His parents

• Jane, the girl he used to play checkers with

What is the name of the night club Holden goes to where he meets the women?

• Lily Room

• Lilac Room

• Lillian Room

• Lavender Room

Identify Bernice, Marty, and Laverne.

• They are three chambermaids in the hotel where Holden stays.

• They are characters in a short story that Holden is writing.

• They are three women that Holden met and danced with in the Lavender Room.

• They are Jane Gallagher's friends. Holden met them in the hotel dining room.

What do we learn about Holden from his diversion about his gloves being stolen at Pencey?

• He calls himself a coward, but he is really too humane to hurt anyone.

• He is very selfish and materialistic.

• He will jump at any chance to fight.

• Possessions don't mean a lot to him.

What does Holden think of his sister, Phoebe?

• He thinks she's annoying, immature, and whiny.

• He worries that she's sickly and might die like Allie

• He's afraid that she'll be a promiscuous teenager

• He thinks she's pretty, smart, likeable, nice, and funny.

Holden reflects on the nuns he saw at breakfast and says he feels sorry for them because

• they probably never went anywhere expensive for lunch.

• they had to dress in black.

• they are teachers.

• they had to collect money out of a straw basket.