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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When does Gene travel to return to Devon?
(a) August
(b) November
(c) September
(d) October

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

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

7. What has happened to Finny as a result of the fall?
(a) Finny dies
(b) Nothing, Finny is fine
(c) One of his legs is shattered
(d) Both of his legs are shattered

8. What does Finny confess to have had during the fall?
(a) A kind of feeling
(b) A twitch
(c) A nervous feeling
(d) A bad feeling

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

10. What does Finny declare he doesn't believe?
(a) That Gene is his friend.
(b) That school is necessary.
(c) That Gene can jump again.
(d) That the Allies bombed Central Europe.

11. Where do the boys go when they realize how late they are?
(a) A local diner
(b) The beach
(c) The bar
(d) Their dorm room

12. How many students are in the first chapel service at Devon?
(a) 100
(b) 200
(c) 500
(d) 700

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Finny land during the jump?

2. What does Gene notice that seems much smaller than it used to?

3. Who jumps into the river first?

4. What does Finny want to do after tea?

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

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