English 9 YORKE
Catcher in the Rye Review Sheet
Test: Friday, January, 18, 2008
Lower Commons Windows Lab
PART I: MATCHING: Match correct names and descriptions.
Answer 15/15 1 Point Each. 5 minutes
PART II: FILL-IN’S: Please answer to the best of your ability in one or two sentences.
Answer 10/10. 2 Points Each. 10 MINUTES
In this section you may (1) identify/discuss the significance of characters (2) plot related situations/experiences, (3) themes/motifs. (4) literary terms as they relate to Catcher in the Rye.
PART III: QUOTATIONS: Discuss the Significance of each quotation on the attached pages.
Answer 3/5. 15 Points Each. 25 MINUTES
Total Points: 95
These directions are not on the test: Discuss the Significance of each quotation: (1) Identify the context in the story and (2) how the quote relates to Holden’s journey. Additionally, discuss how the quotation relates to (3) themes/motifs, (4) conflicts, (5) symbolism, (6) significant to the plot/characters.
“I didn’t throw [the snowball] at anything, though. I started to throw it. At a car that was parked across the street. But I changed my mind. The car looked so nice and white. Then I started to throw it at a hydrant, but that looked too nice and white, too. Finally I didn’t throw it at anything. All I did was close the window and walk around the room with the snowball, packing it harder” (36).
“All they did was keep letting him down. I almost like anybody in the bible better than the Disciples. If you want to know the truth, they guy I like best in the Bible , next to Jesus, was that lunatic and all, that lived in the tombs and kept cutting himself with stones. I like him ten times as much as the Disciples, that poor bastard” (99).
“I bet a thousand bucks that Jesus never sent old Judas to hell. I still would too if I had a thousand bucks. I think any one of the disciples would’ve sent him to Hell and all-and fast too- but I bet anything Jesus didn’t do it” (100).
“All the kids kept trying to grab for the golden ring, and so was Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall off the goddam horse, but I didn’t say anything or do anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the golden ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them” (211).
“Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game with Saxon hall…you were supposed to commit suicide or something if old Pency didn’t win…practically the home school except me was there” (2).
“Anyway, I just 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 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 (173).
“…I’d meet this beautiful girl who was also a deaf-mute and we’d get married. She’d come and live in my cabin with me, and if she wanted to say anything to me she’d have to write it on a goddam piece of paper, like everybody else. If we had any children, we’d hide them somewhere. We could buy them a lot of books and teach them how to read an write by ourselves” (199).
“I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go.” (13).
“I went down by a different staircase, and I saw another F-U on the wall. I tried to rub it off with my hand again, but this one was scratched on, with a knife or something. It wouldn’t come off. It’s hopeless, anyway. IF you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out half of the F-U signs in the world. It’s impossible” (202).
“I thought how she’d be different every time she saw it. It didn’t exactly depress me to think about it, but it didn’t make me feel gay as hell, either. Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone” (122).
“The best in [the book] was “The Secret Goldfish.” It was about this little kid that wouldn’t let anybody look at his goldfish because he bought it with his own money. It killed me. Now he’s out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute.” (2)
“The thing is I never liked Romeo much after Mercutio gets stabbed by that other man – Juliet’s cousin…” (111).
“The reason he did it, it took me a while to find out, was because he wanted people to think my bags were his”(108).
“My hand still hurts me once in a while, when it rains and all, and I can’t make a real fist anymore-not a tight one, I mean – but outside of that I don’t care much” (39).
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall” (186).