A Separate Peace 7-10

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1.

" The army has the perfect word for everything, did you ever think of that?...And the perfect word for me...psycho. I guess I am. I must be. Am I though, or is it the army? Because they turned everything inside out." Identify the speaker and the addressee. How does Knowles want the reader to interpret the meaning of the war here?
2.

On his first day back to Devon after the first snows Finny takes Gene to:
- A.
  
  The fieldhouse
- B.
  
  Butt room
- C.
  
  Brinker's room
- D.
  
  Beaver dam
3.

Finny believes the war is a myth created by:
- A.
  
  Disaffected Nazis
- B.
  
  Fat old men who eat steaks
- C.
  
  Mr. Ludsbury
- D.
  
  Ignorance in the human heart
- E.
  
  Dave
4.

More treacherous (symbolically) than "icy walks" are:
- A.
  
  Swimming pools
- B.
  
  Jumping into the Nagaumasset
- C.
  
  Marble stairs
- D.
  
  Blitzball
5.

Finny's new mission is:
- A.
  
  To become a top student
- B.
  
  Get better so he can enlist
- C.
  
  Train Gene for the 1944 Olympics
- D.
  
  Injure Gene to become even
6.

Finny stands beside this as Gene does his four lap trial run around the quadrangle.
- A.
  
  Tree
- B.
  
  Snow sculpture of a tank
- C.
  
  A statue of General Pershing
- D.
  
  The infirmary
7.

The Duke of Wellington famously quipped that the Battle of Waterloo was "won on the playing fields of..."
- A.
  
  Youth
- B.
  
  Eton
- C.
  
  Country clubs
- D.
  
  Devon
8.

Pick the event that has (or will) happen(ed) in ASP that is not first enacted in Hemingway's novel, A Farewell to Arms."
- A.
  
  Escape from war only to suffer a death in peace
- B.
  
  Promotion of a primary character to a general
- C.
  
  Baptism into a turgid river after a new understanding
- D.
  
  Narrator making his "own peace" with the notion of war.
9.

Finny seated on his throne with lion's feet and arms recalls the famous (no longer extant) statue by Phidias
- A.
  
  Venus de Milo
- B.
  
  Enthroned Zeus
- C.
  
  Laocoon with snakes
- D.
  
  The Dying Gaul
10.

Leper lives here where the terrain seems much like the propaganda film's.
- A.
  
  Boston
- B.
  
  New York
- C.
  
  Alabama
- D.
  
  Vermont
11.

Brinker wants Gene to do this with him:
- A.
  
  X-country ski
- B.
  
  Enlist
- C.
  
  Revisit the tree
- D.
  
  See a therapist
12.

The first in Finny's class to enlist was:
- A.
  
  Leper
- B.
  
  Brinker
- C.
  
  Gene
- D.
  
  Brownie Perkins
13.

This song was popular during WWII and relates to ideas in this novel, too.
- A.
  
  When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- B.
  
  Over There!
- C.
  
  Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree with Anyone Else but Me
- D.
  
  One, two, three, what're we fightin' for?"
14.

Symbolically burned by Finny to ignite the Olympic flame
- A.
  
  Hazel Brewster
- B.
  
  The tree branch from "the tree"
- C.
  
  A Farewell to Arms
- D.
  
  Homer's war epic, the Iliad
15.

Leper was already going to get this from the army before he deserted:
- A.
  
  A Section Eight discharge
- B.
  
  An honorable discharge
- C.
  
  A courtmartial
- D.
  
  A purple heart
16.

In his mind this happened to Leper's corporal:
- A.
  
  Began talking in ancient Greek
- B.
  
  Changed into a woman
- C.
  
  He started to fly like a bird
- D.
  
  He was shot by an arrow
17.

The Maginot line was:
- A.
  
  Imaginary
- B.
  
  A real set of fortifications and tunnels along the Franco-German border
- C.
  
  A song popular in WWII
- D.
  
  The line that told you if somebody was crazy or not.