4. Give synonyms for the following (more than four).

childish (adj.), furious (adj.), injury (n.), trouble (n.), fascinated (adj.), slide (v.), lonesome (adj.), abuse (v.), ignore (v.), bash (v.), aisle (n.), mostly (adv.), conscientious (adj.), sharp (adj.), snotty (adj.), interrupt (v.), crudely (adv.), entirely (adv.), ignorant (adj.), deserve (v.).

5. Put a preposition from the box into each gap. Some are used more than once.

To Of With In At On Over Down

1. Anyway, we both went ____ our rooms ____ get ready and all, and while I was putting ____ my galoshes and crap, I yelled ____ and asked old Ackley if he wanted ____ go ____ the movies. 2. The thing was, I couldn’t think ____ a room or a house or anything ____ describe the way Stradlater said he had ____ have. 3. The thing was, I couldn’t think ____ a room or a house or anything ____ describe the way Stradlater said he had ____ have. 4. ____ account ____ that injury I told you about. Anyway, the next thing I knew, I was ____ the goddam floor and he was sitting ____ my chest, ____ his face all red. 5. I never discussed my personal life ____ him. ____ the first place, he was even more stupid than Stradlater. Stradlater was a goddam genius next ____ Ackley. 6. While I waited, I got some snow ____ my hand and washed my face ____ it. I still had quite a bit ____ blood ____. 7 She stuck the bag right out ____ the middle ____ the aisle, where the conductor and everybody could trip ____ it. She had these orchids ____, like she’d just been ____ a big party or something. 8. Then she looked ____ me and asked me what I was afraid she was going ____ ask me. “Ernest wrote that he’d be home ____ Wednesday, that Christmas vacation would start ____ Wednesday,” she said. 9. The one thing I hate ____ do is go ____ bed when I’m not even tired. So I opened my suitcases and took out a clean shirt, and then I went ____ the bathroom and washed and changed my shirt. 10. Then I got all ready and went ____ ____ the elevator ____ the lobby ____ see what was going ____.

6. Decide whether the following statements are true or false.

1. All Holden did was close the window and walk around the room with the snowball, packing it harder. A little while later, he hadn’t it with him when he and Brossnad and Ackley got on the bus.

2. Holden’s brother was right-handed.

3. Allie got leukemia and died on July 18, 1948.

4. Stradlater was very pleased with Holden’s composition.

5. Mrs. Morrow invited Holden to visit Ernie during the summer, at Gloucester, Massachusetts.

6. Holden’s kid sister Phoebe goes to bed around eleven o’clock, so he could call her up.

7. The bellboy that showed Holden to the room was old guy around sixty-five.

8. Phoebe has the sort of red hair, a little bit like Allie’s was, that’s very short in the wintertime.

9. Buddy Singer and his stinking band was playing “Just One of Those Things”

10. The one ugly one, Laverne, wasn’t too bad a dancer, but the other one, old Marty, was murder.