A Separate Peace Collaborative Slideshow Quiz

When Gene claims, “I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case” (186), he means that he has lost ___.

• a part of himself when Finny dies

• his identity because he has to enlist in the war

• his mother, who was his biggest supporter in life

• his hope for the future

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When Finny tells Gene, "You work too hard," Gene believes __.

• Finny is concerned about how stressed Gene is

• Finny supports Gene's desire to become valedictorian

• Finny is afraid Gene is trying to "get ahead"

• Finny will surpass Gene academically

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Which character says, “You always were a savage underneath. I always knew that only I never admitted it…. Like… like that time you knocked Finny out of the tree…. Like that time you crippled him for life” (137)?

• Brinker

• Leper

• Dr. Stanpole

• Brownie Perkins

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Leper's statement “I couldn’t sleep in bed, I had to sleep everywhere else.I couldn’t eat in the Mess Hall, I had to eat everywhere else. Everything began to be inside out” (142) reflects ___.

• his insanity

• how the war has broken him down

• Knowles' use of irony

• all of the above

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Brinker can be seen as representing

• innocence lost

• truth

• maturity

• B and C

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When Gene claims, “Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even death by violence,” he means __.

• nothing stays the same and change is inevitable

• love can conquer death

• our memories will stay with us forever

• he has killed his inner enemy

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When Gene puts on Finny's clothes and says "But when I looked in the mirror it was no remote aristocrat. I had become, no character out of the day dreams. I was Phineas, Phineas to the life, " he is attempting to __.

• see how he looks in pink

• change his image

• escape himself and become Finny

• confront his betrayal of Finny

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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

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In the quote, "We spent that summer in complete selfishness, I’m happy to say. The people in the world who could be selfish in the summer of 1942 were a small band, and I’m glad we took advantage of it,” (12), Gene highlights how summer symbolizes __ in the novel.

• energy

• isolation

• unpredictability

• youth

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Which character claims, “This is something I think boys of your generation are going to see a lot of"?

• Mr. Hadley

• Mr. Ludsbury

• Dr. Stanpole

• Mr. Patch-Withers

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