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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the greatest player of the new game?
(a) Chet
(b) Finny
(c) Leper
(d) Gene

2. What position is Gene volunteering for?
(a) Assistant crew manager
(b) Assistant senior crew manager
(c) Crew Manager
(d) Senior crew manager

3. What does Gene almost miss when they return to school?
(a) A class
(b) His trigonometry test
(c) Bed check
(d) His appointment with the headmaster

4. What does Finny accuse Gene of wanting?
(a) To be the valedictorian
(b) To beat Finny
(c) To ignore his roommate
(d) To be perfect

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

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

7. Who confesses to the trip to the beach?
(a) No one
(b) Both boys
(c) Finny
(d) Gene

8. Where does Finny land during the jump?
(a) The bank
(b) A rock
(c) The water
(d) On Chet

9. Who ruminates about what it means to be an American during a time of intense war rationed?
(a) Brinker
(b) Gene
(c) Leper
(d) Finny

10. Who becomes angry at Finny's diagnosis?
(a) Finny
(b) Gene
(c) Finny's mom
(d) Finny's dad

11. Does Gene tell anyone about Finny's broken record?
(a) No
(b) Yes
(c) No, but he writes an anonymous letter to the headmaster
(d) Not for a while

12. Has Gene ever injured himself by jumping from the branch?
(a) No
(b) Every time
(c) Yes, many times
(d) Once

13. "Nothing endures, not a ________, not love, not even death by violence."
(a) Tree
(b) Promise
(c) Question
(d) Memory

14. Where does Gene have an appointment?
(a) Assembly Hall
(b) Far Common
(c) Crew House
(d) Butt Room

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What game appalls Finny, causing him to make up his own game?

3. Who shares the room with Gene now?

4. What is the name of the school the boys attend?

5. What do Finny and Gene get for themselves by using forged draft cards?

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