The second semester has now begun and we are doing The Catcher in the Rye. All of the questions to date are as follows:
Catcher in the Rye
Chapter 1
1. Who is the narrator? About what does he promise to tell the reader?
2. Who is DB? Why does the narrator call him a prostitute?
3. What is Pencey Prep?
4. Why is the narrator leaving Pencey?
Chapter 2
1.) Who is Mr. Spencer and why does Holden visit him?
2.) How does Holden describe himself physically?
3.) Why does Mr. Spencer read the essay about Egyptians? How does holder react to having the paper read?
4.) What are Wooton and Elkton Hills and why does Holden leave them?
Chapter 3
1.) What did Holden buy in New York after losing the foils?
2.) Name three authors whose work Holden has read.
3.) Who is Acklet? Does Holden seem to like him?
4.) Who is Stradlater? Briefly describe him.
Chapter 4
1.) What favor does Stradlater ask of Holden?
2.) Who is Stradlater’s date?
3.) How does Holden happen to know Jane? How does he seem to feel about Stradlater dating her?
Chapter 5
1.) Where does Holden Go on Saturday night? What does he end up doing?
2.) What topic does Holden choose for the composition he is writing for Stradlater?
3.) Who is Allie? What sort of person is he? How does Holden feel about him?
4.) In what year did Allie die? How much time has passed? How old is Holden now? How old would Allie have been?
Chapter 6
1.) Why is Holden worrying when Stradlater returned?
2.) Why doesn’t Stradlater like the composition? What happens?
Chapter 7
1.) Why does Holden go to Ackley’s room?
2.) Why does Holden call Aclkey a “prince…gentleman….and a scholar”?
3.) Why does Holden decide to leave Pency in the middle of the night , days earlier than he had planned? Where does he plan to go?
Chapter 8
1.) Who sits next to Holden on the Train?
2.) What lies does Holden tell the mother about her son? Why?
3.) How does Holden explain the fact that he is not in school?
Chapter 9
1.) List the people that Holden thinks of calling from Penn Station.
2.) What does Holden ask the taxi driver about the ducks?
3.) What sorts of “perverts” does Holden see at the hotel?
4.) What “sex rule” has Holden made for himself? Why does he break it?
Chapter 10
1.) What does Holden like about his sister Phoebe?
2.) What does Holden order to drink at the Lavender Room? Why does he end up drinking Coke instead?
3.) What does Holden think of the three women he meets in the Lavender Room?
