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Catcher and J.D Salingerwhen did he find out his mother was Jewish - correct answer ✔✔after his bar mitzvah
what was Salingers oldest sisters name - correct answer ✔✔Doris
What name did he go buy in school instead of David and why - correct answer ✔✔Jerry, he did not want
to sound Jewish (in 1932 being half Jewish was a source of enormous conflict for Salinger- the mixed
marriage of his parents was highly controversial
what did his family call him - correct answer ✔✔Sonny
where did his parents finally settle - correct answer ✔✔Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania
What became the model for Pencey Prep in Catcher - correct answer ✔✔Valley Forge Military Academy
Salinger was manager for what just like Holden in the book - correct answer ✔✔fencing team
What did Salinger do his senior year - correct answer ✔✔he was the literary editor of the schools
yearbook (Crossed Sabres), he also announced his intention to write for New Yorker Magazine
What did Salinger do after he graduated in 1936 - correct answer ✔✔he attended New York University
but dropped out in the spring,
What did Salingers father urge him to do - correct answer ✔✔learn more about the meatpacking
business and in the fall he was sent to Vienna, Austria to work at a company
who did Salinger start dating while he was living with his parents - correct answer ✔✔Oona O'neill (she
was 16 and he was 23) she was the daughter of the famous playwright Eugene O'neill- the iceman
cometh , apparently the only real person she loved was herself
, What happened to Oona when Salinger went to the war - correct answer ✔✔she married Charlie
Chaplan (she was 18 and he was 53) nor her father or Salinger spoke to her again...she was supposed to
be the one true love and heart break in his life
where did Salinger enroll in a creative writing class - correct answer ✔✔Columbia University
Who was his writing class at Columbia taught by - correct answer ✔✔Whit Burnett, the editor of Story
Magazine- he encouraged his career and became a friend and mentor
what was the first story The New Yorker finally accepted by Salinger - correct answer ✔✔"Slight
Rebellion Off Madison"
what was the first story to featur Holden Caufeild - correct answer ✔✔Slight Rebellion Off Madison- he
was a disaffected teen with pre-war jitters
why was "Slight Rebellion Off Madison" not published and what becam of it - correct answer ✔✔Pearl
Harbor, sat on the shelf to be published 5 years later
what heppened to Salinger as soon as his writing career took off - correct answer ✔✔he was drafted and
became a Counter-Intelligence Agent assigned to the 4th district
while drafted who did he forge a strong friendship with - correct answer ✔✔Ernest Hemingway
What did Salinger do while in the war to keep up with his writing career - correct answer ✔✔he carried
his typewriter around in his jeep
what was he involved with during the war - correct answer ✔✔Battle of the Bulge-
during combat Salinger was one of the first to do what - correct answer ✔✔one of the first American
soldiers to liberate a sub-camp Dachau concentration camp. He could smell the burning bodies and
heard peoples screams
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