A Separate Peace: Chapters 5-9

Who the senior crew manager who gets into a fight with Gene?

• Brinker

• Finny

• Leper

• Quackenbush

Why does Gene get into a fight?

• Someone makes fun of disabled people calling them "maimed sons of b____," and so Gene feels they deserve to be punished

• Gene wants to prove that he is the best at sports, so he has to take the other guy out

• Gene wants to borrow the other guy's shirt and he says no

• Gene punches a teacher in the face for giving him a bad grade

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Since all boys at Devon are required to participate in sports in some way, what does Gene decide to do?

• be an assistant crew manager, in charge of getting water and towels for team

• try out for swim team to beat Finny's record

• make Blitzball an official sport, so that he can be team captain

• try out for quarterback to make himself more popular

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How does Finny feel about Gene now?

• He still wants to be Gene's roommate and calls him to keep in touch

• He hates Gene for crippling him and refuses to ever speak to him again

• He makes new friends back home and decides to never to return Devon. Not because he is angry at Gene, but because he is having a good time

• He is indifferent to Gene now but they are no longer friends.

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What do Gene and Brinker Hadley discuss during their first meeting?

• Why Gene has his own room. 
• How much they both want to enlist in the war.
• Poetry and Latin class. 
• Brinker accuses Gene of pushing Finny out of the tree.

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Why doesn't Leper help shovel the train tracks?

• Leper is protesting the war.

• Leper is lazy and hates physical labor.

• Leper is skiing and wants to find a beaver dam.

• Leper is afraid of trains.

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Why does Gene change his mind about enlisting?

• Gene is afraid to go to war.

• Gene wants to continue his education.

• Gene believes the war isn't real.

• Gene believes Finny needs him.

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Identify the shift in mood between the summer and winter sessions:

• There isn't much of a change.

• hot and humid to cold and icy

• strict and demanding to care-free and innocent

• care-free and innocent to strict and demanding

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Upon returning to school, Finny complains that...

• there are no maids.

• there are no soldiers.

• Leper has moved.

• his leg hurts.

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What does Finny believe about the war?

• The war is wrong and should be protested.

• The war is purposeful and should be supported.

• The war isn't important and doesn't affect him.

• The war is not real and is created by fat, rich men to control others.

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