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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Gene turns to Finny to delay the jump?
(a) He loses his balance
(b) He bounces the branch
(c) He gets dizzy
(d) He falls

2. What can Finny still do as a result of the accident?
(a) Walk
(b) Skip
(c) Run
(d) Jump

3. What does the substitute teacher want to scold Gene and Finny for missing?
(a) Dinner
(b) A test
(c) The recruiter
(d) Their classes

4. Who is the witness to Finny's breaking of the school record?
(a) Brinker
(b) Gene
(c) No one
(d) Leper

5. Who jumps into the river first?
(a) Chet
(b) Gene
(c) Finny
(d) Elwin

6. What does Finny talk Gene into doing before they leave the beach?
(a) Take a swim
(b) Jumping from a tree
(c) Build a sand castle
(d) Go to a store

7. What does Finny accidentally wear as a belt?
(a) A boat cord
(b) A piece of rope
(c) A flag
(d) A school tie

8. What do the two boys want to form?
(a) A secret society
(b) An alliance
(c) A new sport
(d) Their own army

9. What is Gene referring to when he describes a steely black steeple?
(a) Finny
(b) The tree
(c) A building
(d) The chapel

10. What does Gene think Finny may have done?
(a) Saved his life
(b) Made him unsteady
(c) Nothing
(d) Tried too hard to help him

11. What kind of record did Finny break?
(a) Track
(b) Swimming
(c) Badminton
(d) Running

12. Who shares the room with Gene now?
(a) Chet
(b) No one
(c) Brinker
(d) Leper

13. Who lives across the hall from Gene?
(a) Leper
(b) Chet
(c) Brinker
(d) Finny

14. Who is Gene's new boss?
(a) Quackenbush
(b) Finny
(c) Prud'homme
(d) Brinker

15. Who is the substitute teacher for the summer?
(a) Mr. Brinker
(b) Mr. Patch-Wilders
(c) Mr. Prud'homme
(d) Dr. Stanpole

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems distant and unreal in a time of war?

2. Who loses his balance in this jump?

3. Where do Finny and Gene sleep during their excursion away from school?

4. Who is Finny's doctor?

5. Who calls Gene while he is at school?

(see the answer keys)

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