chapter 7 a separate peace

Why does Gene fight with Cliff Quackenbush?

• He wants Quackenbush's job on the crew.
• Nobody likes Quackenbush.
• Quackenbush fires him from the crew.
• Quackenbush calls him maimed.

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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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Finny's greatest strength is

• his singing skills.
• his ability to talk himself out of trouble.
• his swimming abilities.
• his academic abilities.

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Gene assumes that Finny is trying to do what to hurt him?

• Sabotage his grades.
• Get him expelled.
• Push him off the tree.
• Show him up at sports.

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When Gene realizes Finny is a better person than he is, how does he react to this realization?

• He yells at Finny and tells him he's not his friend.
• He causes Finny to fall out of the tree and break his leg.
• He tells the teachers that Finny is a cheater so he'll get expelled.
• He lies to Finny and tells him he broke a swimming record.

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What might this symbolize: "There was a fire. It was just a grass fire out behind our house. We...took some brooms and beat it. I guess what we really did was fan it because it just kept getting bigger."

• It symbolizes the anger inside Gene, and how instead of fighting it, he allowed it to grow into a threatening situation

• It represents the love and warmth that Gene's parents felt for him, which encouraged him to come clean to Finny

• It represents the destruction of Finny's former self, and that the new Finny will be angry and bitter

• It represents WW2 getting closer and closer to Gene and Finny--beginning to threaten their very lives

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Why does Gene confess to Finny that he had hurt him on purpose?

• For two reasons: Gene wants to tell someone to make himself feel better; also, he knows that it will only make Finny more sad, and part of Gene still wants to hurt Finny more

• Gene knows that he will be arrested any day due to Leper's eyewitness testimony, so he figures he should go ahead and tell Finny

• Gene never confesses to Finny

• Gene is too drunk to lie convincingly

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How does Finny react when Gene confesses the truth?

• Finny does not want to believe Gene and asks him to stop talking. He is briefly angry, but then carries on as if nothing happened

• Finny immediately calls the police on Gene and asks that he be arrested

• Finny tells Gene that he knew all along and forgives him; then invites Gene to pray with him

• Finny throws the flowers that Gene brought in his face and tells him to never come back to his house again

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Why is it important that Gene and Finny are 16?

• Boys can enlist at 17 or be drafted at 18, but since Finny and Gene are sixteen there is no pressure on them about the war

• Gene will have to be tried as a juvenile

• In the 1940s, 16-year-olds could not drive, so they have to take trains, buses, or bikes everywhere

• They are actually a year behind in school, and so they must attend this summer school to graduate by age 18

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Who else besides Gene and Finny was there when Finny fell?

• Leper

• Brinker

• The doctor

• Master Prud'homme

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