Dead Author Tribute- J.D. Salinger Quiz

Answer: she tells him that, when Daddy comes home, they'll all go for a ride

They have a boat that they never use. The kid decides to go and sit in it and won't come out.

Answer: he knew the pool would be empty

Teddy suggests, to Nicholson, that Booper would push him into the pool at their swimming lesson and the pool would turn out to be empty so he would crack his head open and die. After he leaves for his swimming lesson, Nicholson goes down to the pool and hears a scream surrounded by hollow walls.

A kid must have peed in the pool earlier or something and they had to empty it. Teddy might have jumped into the empty pool, instead of being pushed, but he still knew it would be empty.

Answer: Jesus Christ is in everyone

When Franny and Zooey were kids and they didn't want to do something, Seymour would tell them to do it for the Fat Lady. They didn't understand what that meant, but they did it anyway.

Answer: there was a deaf mute in the car

The bride's father's uncle was in the car. He was a deaf mute and they needed the pencil and paper to communicate with him.

Answer: A Perfect Day for Bananafish

He tells a little girl that there are fish who go into holes to eat bananas and then they eat so many that they can't get out of the hole and they die. Afterwards, he goes up to his room, gets out a gun and shoots himself. His wife was sleeping on the bed at the time, but we don't find out her reaction.

In "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" we find out that he attempted suicide once before, by cutting his wrist. It's mentioned in Seymour's diary, which Buddy is reading.

Answer: a horse doesn't need gas

He doesn't like old cars. He wants a horse.

Answer: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters

She's sleeping in Seymour and Buddy's room because everyone else is sick. She starts crying and wakes them up. Seymour already fed her recently, so he decides to try reading to her. Buddy thinks that's ridiculous because she's ten months old. Then Seymour points out that she has ears and can hear.

Answer: Seymour

She can't talk to Seymour because he's dead. Zooey tries talking to her but it's not helping. Bessie tries to get a hold of Buddy but she can't. Then Zooey calls on the telephone, pretending to be Buddy. She figures out that it's him, but she lets him help her anyway.

Answer: pretend to be delighted and fake a foot disease

When he is being shown to his room, he is told that there is some bad news about it. He imagines that the news is that it's flooded. If that were the case, he would pretend to have a foot disease that required him to soak his feet for eight hours a day.

Answer: to talk to Phoebe

He sneaks into his parents' apartment so that he can talk to his little sister. He does not want them to know he's there.

Answer: stop praying and start acting

Jesus Christ isn't a real person, he's a part of everyone. That's why she should stop saying the Jesus Prayer and act, for the Fat Lady.

Answer: she looked beautiful

Charlotte was in "It's a Wise Child" and she always sat next to Seymour and stomped on his foot whenever he said something she liked. One day she was sitting next to Boo Boo's cat and Seymour threw a rock at her. The Matron of Honor, at the wedding, had heard about this happening and uses it as one of her many rude comments toward Seymour.

Answer: their coats

When Seymour and Buddy were kids, they got to go and see the party their parents were throwing. When the guests were going to leave, Seymour wanted to give them their coats, but he didn't see them come in so he didn't know which coats were whose. He passed out the coats and he was able to get them all right.

Answer: he was lied to about the prices for hookers

Holden refuses to pay her price and pays what her manager told him it was. She goes and gets him and they come back to his room and steal the rest of the payment.

Answer: meet you at the corner

Esme's five year old brother loves to tell this joke.

Answer: he dies and is replaced

Ramona has an imaginary boyfriend named Jimmy. Then she claims that he has died, but she's still making room for Jimmy on her bed. When her mother mentions this to her, she tells her that it's actually Mickey on her bed with her.

Answer: faint

She faints and wakes up in the manager's office. Lane is there and has canceled his plans. Between this story and "Zooey" he sends her home.

Answer: keep kids from falling off the ledge in the rye

He imagines little kids playing in the rye. There's nobody big around except for him and he has to keep them from falling off the cliff.

Answer: Seymour and Buddy

He thinks they are screwed up because Seymour and Buddy taught them advanced religious concepts when they were too young to understand them.

Answer: Japanese

He is having difficulty writing about Seymour, so when he mentions that Seymour liked Japanese poetry, he goes on about it for several pages.