Q 01/05

In A Separate Peace, what game with no teams and no winners does Finny invent using a medicine ball?

A) Flakball

B) Blitzball

C) Stukaball

D) Panzerball

Answer · why

B) Blitzball

Blitzball takes its name from the German blitzkrieg and becomes the unofficial sport of the summer. Finny makes up the rules as he goes and turns out ...

Q 02/05

In A Separate Peace, what color shirt does Finny wear as his emblem to celebrate the bombing of Central Europe?

A) Pink

B) Yellow

C) Purple

D) Scarlet

Answer · why

A) Pink

Pink on any other boy at Devon would have risked being torn from his back, but Finny wears it all day and charms every master who asks about it. Gene ...

Q 03/05

At Mr. Patch-Withers's tea party in A Separate Peace, how is Finny wearing his official Devon School tie?

A) As a headband

B) As an armband

C) As a belt

D) As a sash

Answer · why

C) As a belt

As a belt, which appalls the host's wife until Finny explains that it honors Devon's part in the war effort. Gene, watching, had been hoping to see hi...

Q 04/05

In A Separate Peace, Finny breaks a Devon School record in which sport and then forbids Gene to tell anyone?

A) Sprinting

B) High jump

C) Pole vault

D) Swimming

Answer · why

D) Swimming

Swimming is not even his sport, yet Finny beats the 100-yard freestyle mark on a whim with only Gene timing him. He refuses to repeat it for a coach, ...

Q 05/05

In A Separate Peace, where do Finny and Gene cycle for hours against school rules the night before Gene's exam?

A) The beach

B) The county fair

C) A mountain lake

D) An army camp

Answer · why

A) The beach

The beach is three hours away by bike and strictly off limits. Gene gets back just in time for his morning test and fails it, the first he has ever fa...