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'A Separate Peace', by John Knowles

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"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!"


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


3. What do the boys like to do as a school tradition?
    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
    Jump from the balcony in the main chapel


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


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


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


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


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?
    Dinner time
    Sunrise
    Early afternoon
    Late at night


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


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