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Quiz about Phonies flits  hotshots  Salingers Catcher
Quiz about Phonies flits  hotshots  Salingers Catcher

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

A multiple-choice quiz by coolupway. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
coolupway
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
88,282
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
2302
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
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. Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Which of the following statements best characterizes Horwitz' hypothesis about the wildlife in the lake in Central Park? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "...what a gorgeous job for a guy around sixty-five years old". Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Holden's objection to Olivier as Hamlet: Hint


Question 5 of 10
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: Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Phoebe wrote books about her, but never finished them. Hint


Question 7 of 10
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."? Hint


Question 8 of 10
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? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Why Holden doesn't want to be a lawyer Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What does NOT appall Holden at Ernie's night club? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
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.

Answer: Ossenburger

He made a speech in chapel that lasted "about ten hours". While he was telling the preppies "what a swell guy he was, what a hot-shot and all", Edgar Marsalla interrupted him with a bit of gaseous effluence. Holden: "It was a very crude thing to do... but it was also quite amusing".
2. Which of the following statements best characterizes Horwitz' hypothesis about the wildlife in the lake in Central Park?

Answer: "Their bodies take in nutrition and all, right through the.. seaweed and crap that's in the ice"

He watched dopey sitcoms, he had a dumb relationship with Joyce Maynard, he apparently wasn't the greatest dad in the world (according to his daughter) and he hid (hides) from fans and biographers. He's still a genius.
3. "...what a gorgeous job for a guy around sixty-five years old".

Answer: Bellhop

Saint Holden makes pained note of the poor schmuck's comb-over, and ruminates that he probably "wasn't too intelligent or anything, but it was terrible anyway".
4. Holden's objection to Olivier as Hamlet:

Answer: "too much like a ... general, instead of a sad, screwed-up guy"

(No word on what Holden thought of The World's Greatest Actor as Dr. Szell in "Marathon Man")
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:

Answer: "he has an inferiority complex"

"...that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion".
6. Phoebe wrote books about her, but never finished them.

Answer: Hazel Weatherfield

Orphan, girl detective, daughter of a 'tall attractive gentleman about 20 years of age'.
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."?

Answer: Carl Luce

"He knew quite a bit about sex, especially perverts and all".
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?

Answer: Life

"But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game".
9. Why Holden doesn't want to be a lawyer

Answer: "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."

Bridge? Martini? A lot of dough? What century was that?
10. What does NOT appall Holden at Ernie's night club?

Answer: "these three sad, stupid girls from Seattle who spent the whole time looking around for movie stars"

In Holden's view, the gaucheries of the women are at least genuine, and thus far less culpable than the blatant phoniness he encounters elsewhere.
Source: Author coolupway

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