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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game appalls Finny, causing him to make up his own game?
(a) Badminton
(b) Rugby
(c) Football
(d) Fooseball

2. What does Gene dress in?
(a) Finny's clothes
(b) A flag
(c) A new school blazer
(d) A military uniform

3. Who chastises Gene for his summer forbidden activities?
(a) Stanpole
(b) Winters
(c) Ludsbury
(d) Prud'homme

4. What is Elwin Lepellier's nickname?
(a) Lenny
(b) Leper
(c) Lep
(d) Ellie

5. Who is the narrator of this story?
(a) Gene
(b) Phineas
(c) The author
(d) Chet

6. What does Finny convince Gene to do?
(a) Try out for a sport
(b) Quit school
(c) Jump from the branch
(d) Enlist in the army

7. Who says, "You never waste your time"?
(a) Chet
(b) Leper
(c) Gene
(d) Finny

8. Who calls Gene while he is at school?
(a) Brinker's dad
(b) Gene's mom
(c) Leper's mom
(d) Finny

9. What does Finny think Gene is still afraid of?
(a) Him
(b) The war
(c) The tree
(d) The teachers

10. What does Finny convince Gene to join him on?
(a) A 3 hour bike ride
(b) Enlisting in the military
(c) A trip to the city
(d) Playing hooky at the local arcade

11. Who is supposedly going to jump from the tree?
(a) Bobby
(b) Leper
(c) Chet
(d) Brinker

12. Where does Gene go instead of Devon?
(a) Boston
(b) Down south
(c) To Leper's house
(d) Finny's home

13. What is the name of the school the boys attend?
(a) Devon
(b) Oxford
(c) Devonshire
(d) Stanford

14. Who is impressed with Gene's hard work?
(a) Brinker
(b) Finny
(c) The headmaster
(d) Chet

15. Where is the school located?
(a) Ireland
(b) The South
(c) New England
(d) England

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Finny say is his best friend?

2. What does Finny confess to have had during the fall?

3. "Nothing endures, not a ________, not love, not even death by violence."

4. What is the game Finny invents?

5. What does Finny remember Gene wearing during the fall?

(see the answer keys)

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