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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Finny and Gene sleep during their excursion away from school?
(a) In a tent
(b) In a car
(c) On the beach
(d) In a hotel

2. What does Gene notice that seems much smaller than it used to?
(a) The tree
(b) The river
(c) The school
(d) The beds

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

4. What does Finny remember Gene wearing during the fall?
(a) School tie
(b) Pink shirt
(c) Shocked expression
(d) Flag

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

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

7. What does Gene's boss nickname him?
(a) Maimed son of a bitch
(b) Idiot
(c) Lazy bastard
(d) Biggest fool at Devon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Gene think Finny may have done?

3. What does Finny finally conclude about the accident?

4. Who does Gene suspect is sabotaging his success?

5. Who is Finny's doctor?

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