Q 01/05

What did J. D. Salinger become after The Catcher in the Rye?

A) A professor

B) A recluse

C) An editor

D) An expatriate

Answer · why

B) A recluse

A recluse: Salinger moved to the small town of Cornish, New Hampshire, in 1953, published his last story in 1965 and guarded his privacy there until h...

Q 02/05

Which publisher first brought out The Catcher in the Rye?

A) Houghton Mifflin

B) Random House

C) Charles Scribner's Sons

D) Little, Brown and Company

Answer · why

D) Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown and Company: once the first deal collapsed, Salinger's agent, Dorothy Olding, sent the manuscript to the Boston house, which took it at ...

Q 03/05

What is the name of the boarding school Holden has just been expelled from?

A) Elkton Hills

B) Pencey Prep

C) Whooton School

D) Choate

Answer · why

B) Pencey Prep

Pencey Prep: on his last Saturday there, the whole school is down at the big football game against Saxon Hall while Holden watches alone from a hillto...

Q 04/05

Holden, manager of his school's fencing team, ruins a New York match by doing what?

A) Oversleeping and missing the train

B) Insulting the rival captain

C) Leaving the foils on the subway

D) Losing the team's travel money

Answer · why

C) Leaving the foils on the subway

Leaving the foils on the subway: Holden kept jumping up to check the map for their stop, so the match never happened and the team refused to speak to ...

Q 05/05

Holden's prep school is widely seen as modelled on which school J. D. Salinger attended?

A) Valley Forge Military Academy

B) Phillips Exeter Academy

C) The Hill School

D) Lawrenceville School

Answer · why

A) Valley Forge Military Academy

Valley Forge Military Academy: unlike Holden, Salinger lasted. His parents sent him there in 1934, and he graduated in 1936 as literary editor of the ...