This is a brief reading quiz on the opening chapters of John Knowles' novel, A Separate Peace
1942
1943
1957
1966
Mr. Patch-Withers
Mr. Ludsbury
Mr. Prud'homme
Leper Lepellier
1958
1942
1943
1939
A tree and a church
A gymnasium and a classroom
A tree and a set of marble stairs
An athletic field and a French classroom
Exeter
Devon
Rye
Cushing
The Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session
The Blitzball Club of Anarchists
The Roustabouts
The New Greeks
Satan from a Mark Twain Story and a young JD Rockefeller
Virgil from Dante and a young Ted Kennedy
God's 74th angel and David Hackett from Milton Academy
Oliver Twist and JOhn Knowles himself
A bright pink shirt
A pair of striped suspenders
A school tie as a belt
A pair of army fatigues
Anarchy
Ultimate Frisbee
Swimball
Blitzball
Paint faces
Chug cider
Jump from the tree
Sing a verse about Mabel
War
Swimming
Sports
Life
Woodrow Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Long jump
Badminton
Touchdowns
Swimming
Boston
The beach
The war museum
To the Smith girl's school
Finny to Gene
Gene to Finny
Leper to Brinker
Finny to Brinker
Gene to Mr. Patch-Withers
Finny to Gene
Gene to Finny
Gene to himself
Epistolary narration
Omniscient narration
Frame narration
Third person narration
Noah/Cain and Abel
Adam and Eve biting the apple/Jonah and the Whale
David and Bathsheba/Adam and Eve biting the apple
Cain and Abel/dam and Eve biting the apple
They will be Fourth formers
They will be Fifth Formers
They will be Sixth Formers
They will be Lower Middlers
" A man may be destroyed but not defeated"
" And they since they were not the ones dead, went about their affairs"
"Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man."
The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton"