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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Finny's real name?
(a) Frank
(b) Paul
(c) Phineas
(d) Finn

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

3. What does Gene tell a story about?
(a) Fighting a fire back home
(b) Leper
(c) The war
(d) A new game he made up

4. Who is the substitute teacher for the summer?
(a) Mr. Prud'homme
(b) Mr. Brinker
(c) Dr. Stanpole
(d) Mr. Patch-Wilders

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who confesses to the trip to the beach?

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

3. What is Elwin Lepellier's nickname?

4. What is Gene referring to when he describes a steely black steeple?

5. What does Finny think Gene is still afraid of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens as Gene loses his balance on the branch with Finny?

2. Who are the four boys that are with Gene as he stands by the tree?

3. Who can not believe that the allies bombed Central Europe?

4. What sport does Finny think is a horrible addition to the summer athletics program?

5. What does Finny decide to do in celebration of the first Allied bombing of Central Europe?

6. What does Gene fear Finny is trying to do when Finny tries to waste Gene's time?

7. What position has Gene volunteered for?

8. What is one of the main rules for the secret club that Finny and Gene have created?

9. What is Finny's mistake that he makes when having tea with the substitute headmaster Mr. Patch-Wilders?

10. What seemed so much larger to Gene, as told by him, when he was younger as opposed to now?

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