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WorksheetsA Separate Peace Collaborative Slideshow Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
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
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
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
Brinker can be seen as representing
innocence lost
truth
maturity
B and C
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
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
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
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
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
Complete this quote: "... it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the ___” (193).
world
human mind
universe
human heart
Which character always says "Give it the old college try"?
Finny
Cliff Quackenbush
Phil Latham
Mrs. Lepellier
The Latin inscription above the entrance to the First Building reads, ___.
One Nation Under God
Here Boys Come to Be Made Men
Seize the Day
Out of Many, One
Gene expresses what emotion towards Finny when he says, “It’s because of that movie star tan you picked up this afternoon… showing off again” (39)?
resentment
hatred
jealousy
admiration
Which event could be considered the resolution of the novel?
Gene visits Finny, they talk it out, and Finny dies in surgery.
Brinker convinces Finny that Gene hurt him and runs out of the room, slipping on the marble stairs and breaking his leg again.
Gene and Brinker graduate and enlist in Navy and Coast Guard
Gene goes back to Devon and sees the tree and marble stairs.
