english 2 honors: FINAL EXAM - A SEPARATE PEACE

Narrator of the story

Gene

laughed at finny wearing the school tie as a belt

Mr. Patch-Withers

First to enlist

Leper

has a snail collection

Leper

Fights gene over the crew team

Quackenbush

Jounces the limb

gene

gene's only competition for valedictorian

Chet Douglas

Does not understand that gene needs to work hard at school

Finny

Bullies leper

Brinker

suspects gene of involvement in finny's fall

Brinker

Genes time at the Devon school and the greatest part of the novel's story covers how much time?

One year

When does Gene realize that Finny is not jealous of his studies?

Just before the fall from the tree

At finny's home, gene

Tells Finny the whole truth

Why does Finny want gene to train for the olympics?

to replace himself

Why does Finny invent the story of the imaginary war?

to cover up his feelings of wanting to be a soldier

How does finny react to gene's first visit to the infirmary after the trial and second fall?

With little emotion

Leper's telegram interrupts

The winter carnival

How do the boys react after Finny's fall down the stairs?

calmly and rationally

At the end of the story, finny

says Gene was motivated by a blind impulse

brinker enlists in the coast guard because

his not likely to be in combat

How did Leper become a connection between the boys and WWII

they fantasize about his exploits and successes

Phineas "with only one leg created a droll dance . . . it was his choreography of peace." Where does this dance occur?

during the winter carnival

He wrote the poem "Our chore / is the core / of the war."

Brinker Hadley

Gene believes wars are caused by

something ignorant in the heart

Gene wore a uniform but never saw combat.

True

Most of the boys were sixteen to seventeen during the course of the novel.

True

Gene never tells Finny the truth about the cause of the fall from the tree.

False

Finny was never in competition with Gene for anything.

True

Gene's fear of jumping out of the tree is an external conflict

False

The faculty think of finny as a trouble-maker and take joy in catching him breaking the rules

False

Gene and finny reconcile at the end of the story

True

Gene admits to himself that he is disappointed when finny is not punished by the masters when finny breaks a school rule

True

Finny makes up the game of Blitzball to intentionally showcase his incredible talent for sports.

False

Gene is an exceptional athlete, while Finny is an exceptional student.

False

Gene is never able to stop talking about finny's death

False

Gene tells Finny he'd make a terrible soldier because he'd get things so scrambled up nobody would know who to fight anymore.

True

The climax of the novel occurs when gene abandons leper in the snow

False

"Do you think i want to hear every gory detail? Shut up! I don't care! I don't care what happened to you. This has nothing to do with me."

Gene

"We aren't going to talk about this. It's just between you and me. I just wanted to see if i could do it."

Finny

"There aren't any teams. We're all enemies."

Finny

"I'm no fool, you know. I know when i have information that might be dangerous. You've never realized it, but I'm important."

Leper

"You always were a savage underneath."

Leper

"You've got a little personal stake in this. What i mean is it wouldn't do you any harm, you know, if everything about Finny's accident were cleared up and forgotten."

Brinker

"When i heard (that leper was crazy), then i knew that the war was real, this war and all the other wars."

Finny

"It was just some ignorance inside me, some crazy thing inside me, something blind, that's all it was."

Gene

"(My dad) and his crowd are responsible for (the war)! And we're going to fight it!

Brinker