Chpt. 1 through 5 review for quiz
• 25 questions.
• You must answer 20.
• 20 points total.
>The quiz will be open book but not open notes.
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Questions about Holden and Allie.
Stradlater and Ackley
Plot points
Character traits, appearance, motivations,
favorite expressions, etc.
• Vocabulary: you will have to define and use a
series of words…
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hemorrhage
ostracize
Take a second and write
grippe
down the words, then
qualms
we’ll play a matching
game
chiffonier
vernacular
conceited
halitosis
talisman
Peter Pan Syndrome
Vernacular: slang (or regional expressions—hoagie
vs. sub)
Qualms (fears, concerns)
ostracize (to shun or be shunned)
halitosis
conceited: self-involved, self-centered,
narcissistic
Chiffonier
Peter Pan Syndrome
The Grippe
Hemorrhage v. or n.
Talisman: good luck charm/ward off evil
Ten words to know.
Be sure you can use correctly in a sentence
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hemorrhage
ostracize
grippe
qualms
chiffonier
vernacular
conceited
halitosis
talisman
Peter Pan Syndrome
Ch. 1
• We meet Holden at 17 who tells his story directly to each of
us as if he were having a conversation. He is holed up on
the West Coast after some “madman stuff” happened
when a year ago, around Christmas, when he got “run
down” and “had to take it easy.” We know he is not living
with his brother because DB has to visit him…so he may be
in some sort of hospital because of what happened last
year. The whole of the novel is a flashback.
• He takes us back to a Saturday before Christmas break.
Crisis point: he has failed out. His parents will be getting
notified by mail (they had been up at Pencey for a
conference around Thanksgiving and were told how poorly
Holden’s been doing.)
Ch. 2
• Holden meets with old Spencer to say good-bye
since he’s not coming back to Pencey.
• Begin to get a feel for his sarcastic tone and
suspicious point of view when it comes to
“phony” adults, such as the Elkton Hills
headmaster.
• He first mentions the Central Park ducks,
wondering where they will go in the winter. This
shows his concern for vulnerable, innocent
creatures.
Ch. 3
• We go with Holden to his dorm room. He tells us
the Ossenburger story, which reinforces how
adults are all fakes.
• We meet Ackley and get to know him in all his
disgusting and annoying glory. More of Holden’s
sarcasm and irritability is on display.
• The red hat makes its first appearance
• At the end of the chapter, his roommate,
Stradlater, is introduced. He’s going on a date and
needs to borrow Holden’s blazer.
Ch. 4
• Stradlater gets ready for big date. Ironically (since
Holden is failing out), he asks for Holden’s help
writing a composition. We get a fuller idea of
who Stradlater is and what makes him tick (think:
conceited, on the prowl, not sensitive like
Holden).
• We learn his date is with Jane Gallagher, whom
Holden knows and really cares about.
• It’s clear from Holden’s behavior and narration
that he is extremely anxious about what might
happen when Stradlater gets Jane alone.
Ch. 5
• Saturday night. Holden has no date and decides to go into town
with Mal Brossard and Ackley. Even though Ackley is an
unappealing and annoying person, Holden asks him to come
along.
• He tells us about the perfect white snowball he makes that he
won’t throw. A symbol for his obsession with things that are
pure…
• They get back and Holden begins working on Stradlater’s paper.
He writes about Allie’s baseball glove, which leads to the whole
tale of his younger brother’s death from leukemia. (Maine, three
yrs. ago.)
• Allie is described in great detail and we find out Holden held him
up as an example of everything that was right and good in the
world. On the night of his death, we find out Holden reacts
violently, punching out glass windows, hurting his hand. There is
talk of getting him mental help because of his reaction.