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'A Separate Peace', by John Knowles

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A Separate Peace by John Knowles game quiz
"This is a regular quiz about John Knowles' WWII novel, A Separate Peace. It covers a 16-year-old boy's experiences as the war systematically breaks his "separate peaces". Beware! This gives away the ending!"

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1. Who are the two main characters in "A Separate Peace" the book?
    Gene and Finny
    Pete and Leper
    Quackenbush and Finny
    Brinker and Leper


2. One of the characters lives in Boston, one lives in Vermont, and others come from various places. Who comes from the South?
    Finny
    Gene
    Leper
    Brinker


3. What do the boys like to do as a school tradition?
    Jump from the balcony in the main chapel
    Mix their blood droplets together and have everyone drink it
    Jump from a big oak tree into the river
    Burn their hands until they start to turn gray


4. Who twice suffers a broken leg in the book?
    Quackenbush
    Gene
    Finny
    Brinker


5. From whom does Gene receive a telegram?
    His mother
    Finny
    Leper
    Quackenbush


6. In what season do the boys have a festival?
    Winter
    Spring
    Summer
    Fall


7. What work do the boys from Devon have to spend a day doing?
    Cleaning the chapel because they have disrespected it
    Shoveling snow from the railroad tracks
    Repainting all of the hallways in the buildings
    Shining every shoe on the campus


8. When the trial is being held in the auditorium (with poor acoustics), who storms out of the room?
    Leper
    Gene
    Finny
    Brinker


9. At what time of day does the trial take place?
    Sunrise
    Dinner time
    Late at night
    Early afternoon


10. Who dies at the end of the story?
    Dr. Stanpole
    Gene
    Finny
    Leper

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