Characters
Plot
War
Finny - Gene
Quotes
100
This character thinks very highly of himself and that he is above others. This caused him to get into a fight with Gene
Who is Quackenbush
100
Please name the following items about the setting: year, state, school
What is 1942-1943; New Hampshire; Devon School
100
Gene does not want to join the war because
he pities Finny.
100
Gene fails his test because he went here with Finny instead of studying.
What is the beach
100
Identify the speaker. "Why do you think I kept saying that there wasn't any war all winter? I was going to keep on saying it until two seconds after I got a letter from Ottawa or Chungking or some place saying, 'Yes, you can enlist with us.'"
Who is Finny
200
This character believes in justice and is suspicious of the main character.
Who is Brinker Hadley
200
In what style is this story told? What is unique about the narration?
The story is told through flashbacks. The narrator, Gene, jumps between narrating the story as an adult and as a teenager.
200
Leper enlisted in this section of the Armed Forces.
What is the ski troops
200
Finny and Gene are the founders this society. (Must say full name in order to receive credit!)
What is The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session
200
Identify the speaker. "The fat old men who don't want us crowding them out of their jobs. They've made it all up." Ch. 8
Who is Finny
300
This person enlisted in the army first.
Who is Leper
300
What is the final event that pushed Gene into knocking Finny from the tree?
Finny wanted to hold another Suicide Society meeting because Leper was finally going to jump from the branch. Gene wanted to stay and study for his final.
300
What type of school is set up on Devon's campus?
What is Parachute Riggers School
300
Gene takes this team position because he is too guilty to play on a sports team.
What is Crew Assistant Manager
300
Explain the significance of this quote. "Peace had deserted Devon." Gene - Ch. 6
Gene has just returned from visiting Finny at his home in Boston. The quote is referring to Gene's feelings of guilt and that Devon is no longer the place of childhood innocence that it has always been to him and Finny due to Gene's actions.
400
This person is Gene's rival in academics.
Who is Chet Douglas
400
This was Finny's dream and is now training Gene to complete it for him.
What is the 1944 Olympics.
400
Why did so many boys from Devon School enlist in an officer's program?
In an officer's program they would be trained for a long period of time and would avoid combat, but could still be a part of the war.
400
Name the scene: "The ground was too damp to sit on, so I crouched down and waited. I could hear their blurred voices droning monotonously through the window....These formed the background for the dull hum of talk in Finny's room as Phil Latham, Dr. Stanpole, and the night nurse worked over him."
When is Gene is sitting outside Finny's window after he breaks his leg for the second time.
400
Identify the speaker and the even that is being described. "I can't think of the name of the engine. But it has two pistons. What is that engine? Well anyway, in this engine first one piston sinks, and then the next one sinks. The one holding on to the trunk sank for a second, up and down like a piston, and then the other one sank and fell."
Who is Leper who is describing what he saw when Finny first fell during the mock trial.
500
This person is called a "savage".
Who is Gene.
500
In Chapter 11, before the mock trial, Gene is helping Finny translate a Latin reading about Julius Caesar. Describe why this could be considered foreshadowing?
What is Julius Caesar was betrayed and killed by his best friend Brutus.
500
Who said this quote and why did they say it? "People wil get their respect for you from that - partly from that, don't get me wrong - but if you can say that you were up front where there was some real shooting going on, then that will mean a whole lot to you in years to come."
Who is Mr. Hadley. He is speaking to both Gene and Brinker who admitted to signing up for branches of the Armed Forces that do not go directly into combat duty.
500
Please explain this quote. "I did not cry then or ever about Finny. I did not cry even when I stood watching him being lowered into his family's strait-laced burial ground outside of Boston. I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case."
Gene felt so connected with Finny that he feels that he has died along with Finny. Finny represented Gene's innocence and childhood and thus when Finny is buried, so is Gene's innocence.
500
Identify the speaker: "I'm going to 'serve' as he puts it, I may even get killed. But I'll be damned if I'll have that Nathan Hale attitude of his about it. It's all that World War I malarkey."
Who is Brinker
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