A Separate Peace: Study Help: Quiz

1: What school does Gene Forrester attend?

a. Barton Academy

b. Devon School

c. Strathmore

d. Fulton School

2: What athletic feat does Finny suggest he and Gene try?

a. Climb to the top of the school flagpole

b. Climb onto the roof of the tallest building on campus

c. Jump from a tree into a river

d. Swim across a rapidly flowing river

3: What is the name of the society that Finny organizes?

a. The Brotherhood of the Red Hand

b. The Skull and Crossbones Society

c. The Dead Poet’s Society

d. The Suicide Society

4: How does Finny shatter his leg?

a. He is hit with a bat in a fight.

b. He falls from a tree.

c. He smashes it against a rock while swimming.

d. He injures it in a football game.

5: What happens when Gene initially confesses to Finny?

a. Finny vows never to speak to him again.

b. Finny throws him out angrily.

c. Finny refuses to believe him.

d. Finny tells him he already knew.

6: Who is the student who has a mental breakdown during his army service?

a. Bobby Zane

b. Leper

c. Brinker

d. Chet Douglass

7: Who is the student who leads the “trial” against Gene?

a. Quackenbush

b. Brinker Hadley

c. Chet Douglass

d. Leper

8: How does Finny break his leg again?

a. In a fight

b. Walking on it too soon

c. Playing sports

d. Falling on stairs

9: What does Finny die from?

a. Dehydration

b. A brain seizure

c. A heart attack

d. A complication from the doctor resetting the leg

10: What war is going on during the major events of the book?

a. The Korean War

b. World War II

c. World War I

d. The Vietnam War

11: The last view of Finny at sports is when he is

a. swimming in the Devon river

b. in the snowball fight

c. rowing on the Naguamsett river

d. running on the rugby field

12: Which of the following novels does not dramatize the challenge of growing up to be a truly individual adult in a conformist world?

a. Lord of the Flies

b. The Catcher in the Rye

c. A Separate Peace

d. Orpheus Descending

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