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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.

Author
coolupway

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
88,282

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
2303

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

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

Morrow

Ossenburger

Carl Luce

James Castle

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Question 2 of 10

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

"The old ladies and all, they feed 'em"

"They fly away by themselves-- go south or something"

"Wudga say? I got no time to be thinkin' about ducks, Mac"

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

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Question 3 of 10

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

Bellhop

Christmas tree mover

Taxi driver

Parking valet

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Question 4 of 10

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

"He wasn't even Danish and all. God, how I hate the movies"

Too "flitty"

"You just knew that he'd be one of those guys that wouldn't say hello to you in the street."

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

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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

"he's really a grand person, once you get to know him.

"he has an inferiority complex"

"he's really a sensitive guy. Sensitive. That kills me"

"he's really this very humble, modest kind of guy"

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Question 6 of 10

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

Sally Weatherfield

Hazel Caulfield

Hazel Weatherfield

Sunny Weatherfield

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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

Carl Luce

Dick Slagle

Ernest Morrow

Harris Macklin

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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

Football

Prep School

Fencing

Life

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Question 9 of 10

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

All you do is go around investing in a lot of plays that lose money, for God's sakes..."

"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."

"You have to laugh at every partner's stupid jokes before they'll do anything for you"

"It's a clique. All the lawyers stick together, all the doctors stick together..."

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Question 10 of 10

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

The crowd ..."were exactly the same morons that laugh like hyenas in the movies at stuff that isn't funny"

Ernie "putting all these dumb, show-offy ripples in the high notes"

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

Ernie giving "this very phony, humble bow"

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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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