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100
He organizes the game of blitzball, is a clown and is the school's best athlete.
Who is Finny?
100
He warns Gene and Finny to "keep the war in their sights at all times."
Who is Mr. Ludsbury
100
This is the name of the river that Gene and Finny and the boys jump into
What is the Devon?
100
Finny holds this belief about sports
What is that "everyone wins at sports."
100
Leper is given a military discharge because he
went AWOL (left without permission)
200
He loves nature, is the first one to actually enlist, and eventually suffers a mental breakdown.
Who is Leper Lepellier?
200
He tells Gene and the others that Finny will never play sports again.
Who is Dr. Stanpole
200
Leper Lepellier refers to this place as "The Christmas Location."
What is Vermont?
200
When Finny is rejected by all branches of the U.S. military, he writes to this world leader...
Who is General Charles De Gaul
200
Leper plans to join this group of the military
What is the ski troop
300
He is a natural leader and organizes the "inquisition" of Gene and Finny.
Who is Brinker Hadley?
300
This kid is Brinker Hadley's roommate. He hides the hard cidar that the boys drink.
Who is Brownie Perkins.
300
As the war progresses, this part of campus becomes occupied by the war.
What is The Far Common
300
Leper Lepellier is given this type of military discharge
What is a Section 8
300
Gene eventually joins this branch of the military
What is the navy
400
He is Gene's main rival (during the summer) for valedictorian. He's one of the six boys who wants to jump from the seniors' tree.
Who is Chet Douglas?
400
Finny impresses him with his humor and wit at the head master's tea.
Who is Mr. Patch Withers
400
This is the river where Gene gets into a fight with Cliff Quackenbush.
What is the Narragansett River.
400
This character suggests that the boys start acting "more natural" about Finny's accident.
Who is Brinker Hadley
400
This event occurs that ends the "special and separate" peace at Devon.
What is Gene receives Leper's telegram
500
Leper Lepellier accuses him of being "a savage underneath."
Who is Gene Forrester?
500
He is not a teacher at The Devon School.
Who is...Mr. Prudhomme, Mr. Patch-Withers, Mr. Selviston, Mr. Ludsbury
500
Finny trains Gene for the olympics in this spot.
What is the Center Commons
500
Leper compares Gene's shaking the tree limb and Finny's falling to this automotive image
What is a piston in an engine
500
Gene says this is the cause of war
What is something ignorant in the human heart
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