A Separate Peace Test

Gene fights with Quackenbush because, which phrase best completes the sentence?

• he has always hated him

• it is his way of defending Finny

• Quackenbush starts a fight

Gene has a great deal of difficulty deciding, which phrase best completes the sentence?

• which room to choose for the Fall

• what to say to Leper

• whether or not to tell Phineas the truth

______is a good example of a character who understands himself and is mostly content.

• Gene

• Phineas

• Brinker

Gene first begins to resent Finny because _____________.

• Finny is a better athlete than he is.

• Finny is taller than he is.

• he thinks Finny is trying to ruin his academic record.

Gene strongly resists ______________.

• believing in Finny’s separate world.

• becoming friendly with Finny again.

• Finny’s attempts to train him.

Which symbol can be interpreted as one of the simple, natural things that made Leper Happy before he enlisted?

• the tree

• Devon

• the war

• the beaver dam

Decide whether the noun in italics is abstract or concrete: Phineas missed the luxury of his life at school in the days before the war.

• abstract

• concrete

Very early in the novel, the mature Gene talks about those men, "the giants of your childhood," having "become pygmies while you were looking the other way." In chapter 8, when Gene runs the course Phineas has laid out for him, loses himself, and breaks "into the clear," he describes Phineas in a similar manner: "....he [Phineas] seemed smaller too. Or perhaps it was only that I...had felt myself all at once grown bigger." Write a response interpreting what Gene means by those parallell statements using evidence from the text.

Which symbol can be interpreted as a conflict between two opposing sides?

• the tree

• Devon

• the war

• the Naguamsett

Before the trial in "A Separate Peace," Brinker accuses Gene of what?

• Trying to get Finny to leave school

• Driving Leper crazy

• Being too cowardly to enlist

• Pitying Finny