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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the school the boys attend?
(a) Devon
(b) Oxford
(c) Stanford
(d) Devonshire

4. What punishment is issued as a result of Finny and Gene missing dinner?
(a) Detention for both
(b) None
(c) Cleanup in the kitchen
(d) 2 demerits

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

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

7. What is Elwin Lepellier's nickname?
(a) Lenny
(b) Lep
(c) Leper
(d) Ellie

8. What does Finny wear in support of the first Allied bombing?
(a) A flag
(b) A uniform top
(c) Pink tie
(d) Pink shirt

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

10. Does Gene tell anyone about Finny's broken record?
(a) Not for a while
(b) No
(c) No, but he writes an anonymous letter to the headmaster
(d) Yes

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

12. Who becomes angry at Finny's diagnosis?
(a) Gene
(b) Finny
(c) Finny's dad
(d) Finny's mom

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

14. Who ruminates about what it means to be an American during a time of intense war rationed?
(a) Brinker
(b) Gene
(c) Finny
(d) Leper

15. What can Finny still do as a result of the accident?
(a) Skip
(b) Jump
(c) Run
(d) Walk

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Gene have an appointment?

2. Who jumps into the river first?

3. What has happened to Finny as a result of the fall?

4. Who loses his balance in this jump?

5. Where do the boys go when they realize how late they are?

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