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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 does the doctor reveal later to Gene?
(a) Finny doesn't want to see him again
(b) Finny will run again
(c) Finny is upset by Gene
(d) Finny has died

2. What happened to cause #166?
(a) The break worked in Finny's favor
(b) Finny needed more care
(c) His heart stopped
(d) The x-ray machine was broken

3. Where has the writer of the cryptic telegram gone?
(a) Winter Session
(b) Butt Room
(c) Assembly Room
(d) Christmas Location

4. Brinker laments that ________ of their class will be unable to participate in the war.
(a) 3
(b) 1
(c) 4
(d) 2

5. What does Finny insist must have made Gene bounce the branch that day?
(a) Vengeance
(b) Stupidity
(c) Madness
(d) Blind impulse

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is waiting for Gene when he returns to his dorm room?

2. What are the boys covered in after doing work by the tracks?

3. What, at first, does Gene conclude that Leper has done?

4. Who is impressed with the influence it must have taken Gene to get a room all to himself?

5. Who else decides they want to enlist?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gene do when Finny expresses his shock and disappointment in the idea of Finny enlisting?

2. What does the cryptic telegram reveal?

3. What does Finny say about the war?

4. What does Finny decide to do in order to pass the time in the winter?

5. When Gene and Leper get into an argument, what does Leper accuse Gene of?

6. Why does Leper decide to enlist in the war?

7. What is Leper's explanation for his desertion of the Army?

8. What was the result of Finny's accident this time?

9. What do Gene and the other boys volunteer to do to support the war effort?

10. Describe the scene in the Butt Room.

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