A Separate Peace Poll

Who lives across the hall from Gene in the fall?

• Brinker

• Leper

• Finny

• Quackenbush

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

• Brinker

• Finny

• Leper

• Quackenbush

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

Who repeatedly brings up Gene’s role in Finny’s injury?

• Gene

• Phineas

• Leper

• Brinker

Gene leaves Leper’s home in Vermont quickly because, which statement best completes the sentence?

• he is late for a train.

• he is angry and horrified by Leper’s behavior.

• Leper’s mother throws him out of the house.

• he receives an urgent call from Finny.

The passage “For the war was no longer eroding the peaceful summertime stillness I had prized so much at Devon, and although the playing fields were crusted under a foot of congealed snow and the river was now a hard gray-white lane of ice between gaunt trees, peace had come back to Devon for me.” (Knowles, 101) ___.

• draws parallels between the war and winter

• shows how Finny’s absence made Gene's life harder to bear

• illustrates that winter without Finny meant no peace for Gene.

• all of the above

What happens between Gene and Finny at the end of chapter 4?

• They skip school and enlist in the military.

• They get in a fight and Finny is expelled.

• He deliberately jounces the tree limb causing Finny to fall.

• He jounces the tree limb by accident resulting in Finny's fall.

Which event could be considered the resolution of the novel?

• Gene visits Finny, they talk it out, and Finny dies in surgery.

• Brinker convinces Finny that Gene hurt him and runs out of the room, slipping on the marble stairs and breaking his leg again.

• Gene and Brinker graduate and enlist in Navy and Coast Guard

• Gene goes back to Devon and sees the tree and marble stairs.

Who lives across the hall from Gene in the fall?

• Brinker

• Leper

• Finny

• Quackenbush

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

• Brinker

• Finny

• Leper

• Quackenbush