Directions: Copy your 20 original test questions into the graphic organizer below.
Be
sure to organize your questions based on their level of questioning according to
Blooms Taxonomy.
**EXAMPLE FORMAT**
Blooms Level of
Questioning
Knowledge
Questions
TEST QUESTIONS
Skill
addressed
1. Holden wonders about the fate of which
animals in Central Park?
a. The foxs
b The wolfs
c The ducks
d The panthers
2: Before Holden leaves, What does
Phoebe give him?
A: A new hat
B: Her Christmas money
C: Some advice
D: A membership to the museum
3. What does the elevator operator offer
Comprehens
ion
Questions
Holden?
A: A prostitute
B: Room service
C: A mint
D: A drink
4. What does Holden discusses with the
Nuns
A: New York Mets baseball
B: How nice New York is
C: Holdens Life
D: Romeo and Juliet
Word
5: What does Mr. Spencer say to Holden
Choice
about life?
A: Your life is terrible.
B Life is a game boy, Life is a game that
one plays according to the rules.
C
Life is a game boy, with rules that
should be broken.
D I had a great life
6: What would result if Holden lost his red
hat
Application
Questions
7. When is Holden is so happy he could
cry?
A: When he is talking about jane>
B: When he sees phoebe on the carousal
C: When he gets to New York
Tone
D: When he sees his mom and dad again
8:Salingers writing style can best be
described as..
A: Classical literature
B: Very straight forward
C: Unique and difficult to read
D: Lame
9: If you could ask Holdens parents three
questions what would they be?
10: What kind of tone does the following
quote give the reader?
Anyway, Im sort of glad theyve got the
atomic bomb invented. If theres ever
another was, i'm going to sit right the hell
on top of it. I'll volunteer for it, I swear to
god I will.
11: Why did Holden leave Mr. Antolinis
apartment?
A: Mr. Antolini had a heart attack
Elements
Analysis
Questions
B: Mr. Antolini was feeling him up
C: Holden was bored
D; He had to go home
12: Witch quote shows Salingers unique
writing style?
Word choice
A: But while I was sitting down, I saw
something that drove me crazy
B: "I know it's a poem by Robert Burns."
C: I kept picturing myself catching him at
it,
D: Game, my ass. Some game. If you get
on the side where all the hot-shots are,
then its a game, all rightIll admit that.
But if you get on the other side, where
there arent any hot-shots, then whats a
game about it? Nothing. No game.
13. Analyze how this quote shows
Salingers writing style.
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you
up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody
has sense enough to just dump me in the
river or something. Anything except
sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People
coming and putting a bunch of flowers on
your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap.
Who wants flowers when you're dead
14. What inferences can you make about
Holden from this quote?
"I thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'"
I said. "Anyway, I 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
Comparison
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
Work Choice
have to come out from somewhere and
catch them. That's all I'd 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."
15. Which of these quotes justifies
Holdens actions in his eyes?
A: Yes, I do. Hes in my class.
B: was because I was surrounded by
phonies. Thats all. They were coming in
the goddam window, For instance, they
had this headmaster, Mr. Hass that was
the phoniest bastard I ever meant in my
life.
C: Rudolf Schmidt, I told her. I didnt feel
like giving her my whole life history.
C: Oh, how nice
16. Recreate this quote in your own words
Synthesis
Questions
to show loneliness. Well take me to the
Edmont then," I said. "Would you care to
stop on the way and join me for a cocktail?
On me, I'm loaded
17. If you could change one thing about
Holdens character, what would you
change?
18. Create what you imagine what
Holdens childhood was like.
Elements
Evaluation
Questions
19: Infer why the graffiti in New York
bothered Holden.
Meaning
20: That's depressing, when somebody
says "please" to you. I mean if it's Phoebe
or somebody. That depressed the hell out
of me. But I put the dough back in my
pocket.
Infer why the one of the only people
Holden loves, makes him depressed.
Meaning
Rubric
Blooms level addressed in the question
Number of questions
Points
Knowledge Questions
4 pts
Comprehension Questions
6 pts
Application Questions
10 pts
Analysis Questions
10 pts
Synthesis Questions
6 pts
Evaluation Questions
4 pts
Skill addressed in the question
Number of questions
Word Choice
4 pts
Meaning
4 pts
Rhetorical Elements
4 pts
Tone
4 pts
Compare/Contrast representations
4 pts
From the 20 questions total, 12 use
specific quotations or passages
from Catcher in the Rye
15 pts
Test typed in example format
Test contains answer key.
Test is printed on due date.
15 pts
Score on another peers test
10 pts
