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Knowledge Questions
1. Holden wonders about the fate of which animals in Central Park?
A. The foxs
B. The wolfs
C. The ducks
D. The panthers
Comprehension Questions
Xander Johnson
Application Questions
Xander Johnson
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10. What kind of tone does the following quote give to the reader?
Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. If there's ever another war, I'm
going to sit right the hell on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
Analysis Questions
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14. What inferences can you make about Holden from this quote?
I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids
playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around
nobody big, I mean except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have
to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff I mean if they're running and
they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's
all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only
thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
Xander Johnson
Synthesis Questions
16. Recreate this quote in your own words to show loneliness. Well take me to the Edmont
then," I said. "Would you care to stop on the way and join me for a cocktail? On me, I'm loaded
17. If you could change one thing about Holdens character, what would you change?
18. Create what you imagine what Holdens childhood was like.
Evaluation Questions
20. That's depressing, when somebody says "please" to you. I mean if it's Phoebe or somebody.
That depressed the hell out of me. But I put the dough back in my pocket.
Infer why the one of the only people Holden loves, makes him depressed.
Xander Johnson