A generation’s voice is captured in short, biting sentences that have echoed through classrooms for decades. The Catcher In The Rye Quote Identification Quiz tests your knowledge of the most famous lines in context. “Step back into the story, and see if you can hear Holden’s voice in each question.
Catcher In The Rye Quotes Quiz Questions
- “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
- “People always think something’s all true.”
- “It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything.”
- “Certain things they should stay the way they are.”
- “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause.”
- “If a body catch a body coming through the rye.”
- “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.”
- “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
- “I can’t stand that stuff. It drives me crazy.”
- “It’s full of phonies, and all you do is study so you can learn enough to be smart enough to buy a goddam Cadillac someday.”
- “I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye.”
- “You never saw such a mess.”
- “It’s not too bad when the sun’s out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.”
- “I hate the movies like poison.”
- “I like it when somebody gets excited about something.”
- “I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
- “People never believe you.”
- “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
- “That’s the whole trouble. You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful.”
- “She was roller-skating in her blue coat.”
- “I sort of miss everybody I told about.”
- “You can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.”
- “I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.”
- “It’s depressing to think about.”
- “Boy, I really freaked out.”
- “I felt so damn happy all of a sudden.”
- “I’m always saying ‘Glad to’ve met you’ to someone I’m not at all glad I met.”
- “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was.”
- “She’s the only one that would really have listened.”
- “You ought to go to a boy’s school sometime. Try it sometime, I mean.”