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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How long has it been since Gene was last at this school?
(a) 2 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 5 years
(d) 15 years

4. Who hosts the tea later in the afternoon?
(a) Finny
(b) Mr. Patch-Wilder
(c) Mr. Prud'homme
(d) Dr. Stanpole

5. What does Finny invite Gene to join him in?
(a) A double jump
(b) A smoke in the Butt Room
(c) A meal
(d) A cup of hard cider

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

7. What does Finny want to do after tea?
(a) Go to bed
(b) Drink
(c) Go to the Butt Room
(d) Jump in the river

8. What is waiting for Gene in the master's study?
(a) Books
(b) Long distance phone call
(c) Food
(d) Drinks

9. How does Gene bounce the branch?
(a) He doesn't
(b) By waving his arms
(c) By moving side to side
(d) By bending his knees

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

11. What does Finny finally conclude about the accident?
(a) You pushed me
(b) I should have died
(c) You didn't help me
(d) I just fell

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

13. What does Finny do with Gene to make him late?
(a) Pulls him into the river
(b) Starts a wrestling match
(c) Talks him into leaving the campus
(d) Trips him

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

15. Who opens each meeting of their secret society with jumping from the tree?
(a) Gene
(b) Finny
(c) Gene and Finny
(d) Leper and Finny

Short Answer Questions

1. What position is Gene volunteering for?

2. Who ruminates about what it means to be an American during a time of intense war rationed?

3. Who is the narrator of this story?

4. When does Gene travel to return to Devon?

5. What does Finny wear in support of the first Allied bombing?

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