It Builds Character
Cause and Effect
A Poison Tree
Who Said That/Theme Time
Wild Card
100

This character enlists in the Army and later regrets it. 

Leper Lepellier 

100

What feeling motivates Gene to jounce the tree limb as Finny stands on it? 

Jealousy

100

In "A Poison Tree" the speaker feels anger toward his friend and expresses the anger, which makes it go away. What does the speaker do when he feels angry toward his enemy? 

He keeps his anger inside and does not express it.

100

Who said this quote: "He had never been jealous of me for a second...there never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he"? 

Gene 

100

A Separate Peace takes place during what war? 

World War 2. 

200

This character breaks the school swimming record but refuses to take credit for it. 

Finny

200

The looming threat of the war causes the boys at Devon to slowly lose their...? 

Innocence and/or youth

200

In "A Poison Tree" what happens to the "foe" the speaker talks about? 

He/she dies after eating an apple from the poison tree. 

200

Who said, "the more things remain the same, the more they change after all...Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence"? 

Gene (adult Gene)

200

What is the FULL (first and last) name of the author of A Separate Peace?

John Knowles

300

This character suspects Gene of hurting Finny on purpose since the beginning and eventually heads a trial to investigate the matter further. 

Brinker Hadley

300
Because he cannot participate in the war after he is injured, Finny...?

Constructs a conspiracy that the war isn't real. 

300

The theme of "A Poison Tree" is...

the destructive nature of unexpressed anger

300

Who said, "I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love"? 

Finny

300

What is the name of the doctor who treats Finny throughout the novel? 

Dr. Stanpole

400

This character believes that the more dangerous a person's military service is, the more respectable they are. 

Mr. Hadley (Brinker's dad) 
400

How does Finny's death affect Gene's character? 

He accepts his own guilt and responsibility for Finny's accident.

400

The speaker in "A Poison Tree" uses plant imagery, saying, "I watered it in fears, / Night and morning with my tears: / And I sunned it with smiles" to explain...

The way the speaker nurtures and grows his unspoken anger towards his enemy. 

400

Gene's declaration that, "I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there" reflects the theme of...

Jealousy as an inner-enemy 

400

Gene's disappointment when Finny doesn't get in trouble for wearing his school tie as a belt reflects Gene's...

jealousy of Finny's charming nature

500

What is Gene's last name? 

Forrester

500

What effect does Leper's testimony during the "trial" have on Finny and Gene? 

They both have to accept the truth that Gene purposely caused Finny's fall. 

500

The apple in "A Poison Tree" described when the speaker says, "And it grew both day and night. / Til it bore an apple bright" symbolizes the speaker's

unexpressed anger

500

Gene putting on Finny's clothes after the tree incident in chapter 4, and his later statement that he never cried about Finny's death because, "I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral" reflects what truth about Gene's identity? 

Gene has built his own identity around his friendship with Finny.

500

Who is the character who gets punched by Gene AND why does he get punched? (FULL NAME REQUIRED)

Cliff Quackenbush - he gets punched for calling Gene "maimed" which triggers his feelings about Finny's recent injury.

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