A Separate Peace

Who lives across the hall from Gene in the fall?

• Brinker

• Leper

• Finny

• Quackenbush

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Who does Gene wish still lived near him?

• Leper

• Finny

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

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

• Brinker

• Finny

• Leper

• Quackenbush

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

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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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Choose the character who best fits the description: (a)   suspects Gene of involvement in Finny's fall.

• Brinker

• Leper

• Chet

• Quackenbush

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

does not understand that Gene needs to work hard at school.​ ​ (a)  

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• Finny

• Brinker

• Mr. Prud'homme

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

bullies Leper.

• Brinker

• Gene

• Finny

• Quackenbush

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

What surprises Finny about Gene?

• That he actually is afraid of jumping

• That he actually has to study

• That he actually is a poor student

• That he actually hates Devon School

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

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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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

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

• Gene

• Phineas

• Leper

• Brinker

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6