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'A Separate Peace' Trivia Quiz

A quiz on the book written by John Knowles.

A multiple-choice quiz by ashalia. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
ashalia

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
63,809

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
1200

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Question 1 of 10

1. What does Finny call the game that he makes up during the first part of the novel?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 2 of 10

2. How does Finny fall from the tree? Hint

the sun gets in his eyes

Gene jounces the limb and Finny falls

the limb he is standing on breaks

Leper shouts profanity at him and he falls out of anger

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Question 3 of 10

3. What kind of record does Finny break? Hint

hockey record

football record

swimming record

baseball record

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who goes crazy and runs away from the war? Hint

Leper

Brinker

Chet

Finny

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who accuses Gene of getting rid of Finny so he can have a room to himself? Hint

Brinker

Bobby

Leper

Cliff

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Question 6 of 10

6. What do they call the summer club that you have to jump out of a tree to be a part of?

Answer: (8 Words)

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who does Gene punch? Hint

Finny

Brinker

Cliff

Leper

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Question 8 of 10

8. This story is told as a flashback. In what year does most of the story take place in? Hint

1942

1944

1943

1941

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Question 9 of 10

9. What subject are Gene and Finny studying before Brinker takes them to the mock trial? Hint

French

Latin

German

Italian

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Question 10 of 10

10. Who dies at the end of this novel? Hint

Finny

Cliff

Brinker

Leper

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What does Finny call the game that he makes up during the first part of the novel?

Answer: blitzball

Finny creates Blitzball so that he and the others will have some sport to play because the only sport available to the boys at the time is badminton. Blitzball becomes very popular at Devon (the private school they attend).

2. How does Finny fall from the tree?

Answer: Gene jounces the limb and Finny falls

Finny encourages Gene to jump with him off of the limb. When Finny is standing on the limb, Gene jounces it on impulse and Finny falls off of the limb, breaking his leg.

3. What kind of record does Finny break?

Answer: swimming record

Finny breaks a swimming record for swimming 100 yds. He beats the previous record holder's time and makes Gene swear he will not tell anyone he did this because he only wanted to see if he could do it.

4. Who goes crazy and runs away from the war?

Answer: Leper

Leper was a mountain boy from Vermont and he was not suited to army life. He is going to get a Section 8 discharge from the war, so he runs back home to Vermont.

5. Who accuses Gene of getting rid of Finny so he can have a room to himself?

Answer: Brinker

Brinker accuses Gene of getting rid of Finny by breaking his leg so that he can have a room to himself.

6. What do they call the summer club that you have to jump out of a tree to be a part of?

Answer: The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session

To be in the 'The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session' you have to jump from the tree that Gene and Finny jump from everytime they have a meeting. When Gene and Finny are going to jump together, Gene jounces the limb and Finny falls and breaks his leg.

7. Who does Gene punch?

Answer: Cliff

Gene punches Cliff Quackenbush because he insults him from the time he arrives at the Crew House. Cliff is the manager, and he thinks that Gene is probably maimed because he isn't doing any sports but rowing. Gene gets mad at Cliff and punches him because he insults him and because he doesn't know anything about what Gene has been through ever since Finny has fallen from the tree.

8. This story is told as a flashback. In what year does most of the story take place in?

Answer: 1942

Gene comes back to Devon (the private school he attended) 15 years after he leaves. He goes around and sees the tree that Finny fell from, and other symbolic landmarks from his past. This story happened in 1942 when Gene, Finny, Brinker, Leper, Chet Douglas, Bobby Zane, and Cliff were all students at Devon.

9. What subject are Gene and Finny studying before Brinker takes them to the mock trial?

Answer: Latin

They are studying Latin and Caesar's period in which he is not doing well. At the mock trial, they question Finny, Gene, and Leper about the day that Finny fell from the tree.

10. Who dies at the end of this novel?

Answer: Finny

When coming from the mock trial, Finny re-breaks his leg. When the doctor is setting his leg, some bone marrow goes to Finny's heart and he dies.

Source: Author ashalia

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