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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 happens that causes Gene to hurry his pace?
(a) A teacher comes to get them
(b) The dinner bell rings
(c) He realizes the time
(d) He is embarrassed

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

3. How many other boys are with Gene when they go to the tree?
(a) Five
(b) Two
(c) Four
(d) One

4. What does Gene almost miss when they return to school?
(a) His appointment with the headmaster
(b) A class
(c) Bed check
(d) His trigonometry test

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the school located?

2. Where does Gene go instead of Devon?

3. What is the game Finny invents?

4. Who becomes angry at Finny's diagnosis?

5. Who is described as 'lily livered'?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the doctor say about the outcome of Finny's injury?

4. Why does Mr. Prud'homme come into Gene and Finny's room the next morning?

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

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

7. Describe the opening scene of Devon when the Fall Session convenes.

8. As Gene and Finny are getting ready to sleep on the beach, what does Finny reveal to Gene?

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

10. What does Gene do one night that leads him to conclude he "will never stumble through the confusions of [his] own character again?"

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