# 📚 The Catcher in the Rye Trivia Set

**Used:** 2025-06-13

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## 📌 REGULAR QUESTIONS

### 1. Who wrote *The Catcher in the Rye*?  
**Answer:** J.D. Salinger  
**Taglines:**  
- The OG literary hermit  
- Salinger: writing one book and ghosting humanity  
- Who knew angst could sell so well?  
- More reclusive than your Wi-Fi signal  
- Holden’s dad, basically  

### 2. What is the name of the main character in the novel?  
**Answer:** Holden Caulfield  
**Taglines:**  
- The human embodiment of a sigh  
- Holden: protector of innocence, slayer of vibes  
- Less "hero," more "confused narrator"  
- Holden it together? Not really  
- Red hat, no plan  

### 3. In what city does most of *The Catcher in the Rye* take place?  
**Answer:** New York City  
**Taglines:**  
- The Big Apple, now with extra teen angst  
- Holden’s personal mood board  
- Concrete jungle where dreams get kicked  
- NYC: where phony meets lonely  
- Bagels, breakdowns, and brooding  

### 4. What kind of school was Pencey Prep?  
**Answer:** A private boarding school  
**Taglines:**  
- Where rich kids go to flunk existentialism  
- Fancy, miserable, full of phonies  
- Ivy League feeder with extra trauma  
- Prep school: the original angst incubator  
- Expensive education, priceless despair  

### 5. What symbol in the book represents Holden's desire to preserve innocence?  
**Answer:** The red hunting hat  
**Taglines:**  
- Emo merch before Hot Topic  
- Red cap, red flags  
- Fashion statement meets identity crisis  
- The only constant in Holden’s chaos  
- Look fly, cry inside  

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## 🧩 FILL-IN-THE-BLANK QUESTIONS

### 1. Holden wants to be the "catcher in the ______."  
**Answer:** Rye  
**Taglines:**  
- Not wheat, not oats—Rye  
- Protecting kids from fields and metaphors  
- The worst farm job imaginable  
- Saving innocence, ruining his own  
- Agriculture meets allegory  

### 2. The story is told in the form of a ______ narration.  
**Answer:** First-person  
**Taglines:**  
- One POV to whine them all  
- “I” for “I hate everything”  
- Narrated by your inner moody monologue  
- It’s like a diary with worse grammar  
- Holden talks, we suffer  

### 3. Holden’s younger brother who died was named ______.  
**Answer:** Allie  
**Taglines:**  
- Gone too soon, but forever referenced  
- The only Caulfield worth rooting for  
- Holden’s emotional wrecking ball  
- Tragic backstory: activated  
- Allie: forever 10, eternally poignant  

### 4. The prostitute Holden hires is named ______.  
**Answer:** Sunny  
**Taglines:**  
- Irony meter explodes  
- Sunshine in name, awkwardness in delivery  
- Not your average character arc  
- Sunny side up, encounter gone down  
- Not every “adult experience” needs to be poetic  

### 5. The novel was first published in the year ______.  
**Answer:** 1951  
**Taglines:**  
- Mid-century melancholy  
- 1951: phony-free since publication  
- Before TikTok, we had trauma in print  
- The Cold War wasn’t the only tension  
- Literature’s broodiest year  

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## 📝 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

### 1. [Difficulty: 1] What is Holden’s view of most people he meets?  
A) They're kind  
B) They're funny  
C) They’re phonies ✅  
D) They’re brilliant  
**Taglines:**  
- Everyone’s a phony, even you  
- Spot the phony: Holden’s favorite sport  
- Trust issues in paperback form  
- Phony or not, you’re getting judged  
- Holden’s phony-o-meter never sleeps  

### 2. [Difficulty: 2] What museum does Holden visit, symbolizing his love for unchanging things?  
A) The Guggenheim  
B) The Museum of Natural History ✅  
C) The Met  
D) MoMA  
**Taglines:**  
- Taxidermy meets trauma  
- Holden’s happy place—if he had one  
- Everything stays the same, unlike him  
- Stuffed animals and existential dread  
- Phony-free fossils  

### 3. [Difficulty: 3] What does Holden mishear the poem as?  
A) Catching kids in a field  
B) Saving children from danger  
C) Catching them in the rye ✅  
D) Holding rye like a bouquet  
**Taglines:**  
- Misinterpretation, Holden style  
- Poetry meets protector complex  
- A metaphor he didn’t quite catch  
- Catching rye, not feelings  
- The field of forgotten innocence  

### 4. [Difficulty: 4] Who is Mr. Antolini in the novel?  
A) Holden’s doctor  
B) His old English teacher ✅  
C) A bartender  
D) Phoebe’s friend  
**Taglines:**  
- Creep factor: moderate to high  
- Good advice, weird execution  
- English teacher with boundary issues  
- A mentor wrapped in discomfort  
- Teacher by day, red flag by night  

### 5. [Difficulty: 2] What is the name of Holden’s little sister?  
A) Ellie  
B) Phoebe ✅  
C) Daisy  
D) Sally  
**Taglines:**  
- The only character with her life together  
- Smart, sweet, and tragically related to Holden  
- Phoebe: beacon of emotional stability  
- Little sis, big heart  
- Honestly, she deserved a spin-off
