A Separate Peace review
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Chet Douglas
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Gene's academic competition
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Brownie Perkins
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Brinker's roommate
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telegram from Leper
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interrupted progress of Winter Carnival
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Lepellier (Leper)
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a loner and social outcast
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Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session
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required one jump from tree by river
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Blitzball
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Finny's summer invention related to war
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Devon
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the school the boys attended
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A. Hopkins Parker
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official holder of the school swim record
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Mr. Prud'homme
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checked on boys' absence from dinner
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Gene Forrester
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narrator of the story
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pink shirt
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garment worn as an emblem
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Mr. Patch-Withers
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Substitute Headmaster for the summer
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Cliff Quackenbush
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crew manager
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marble staircase
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location of Finny's fatal fall
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Phineas
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talented athlete and leader
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his pink shirt
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After the accident, what does Gene wear of Finny's?
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Brinker
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Who occupies Leper's room during the fall session?
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He trains Gene.
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How does Finny compensate for not being able to play sports?
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Yellow Peril
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What nickname does Brinker get?
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maimed
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Gene fights Quackenbush when he calls him...
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enlist in the Army
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Before Finny returns, Brineker and Gene decide to...
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war
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Phineas believes there is no...
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desertion
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Leper's escape is really...
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finding out about Leper and his mental condition
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The thing that convinces Finny that there is a war is his...
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pitied
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Brinker tells Gene that Finny must not be...
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Leper
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The chief witness at the \"trial\" is...
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totally rejected
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That night (after the trial) when Gene goes to talk to Finny, he is...
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something crazy inside him
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When he goes to see Finny again, Gene says he caused Finny's fall because of...
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Parachute Riggers
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The Far Common is taken over by...
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he has no hatred to contribute to it
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Gene says he is ready for the war now because...
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John Knowles
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author of A Separate Peace
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fiction
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A Separate Peace can be described as this kind of writing
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First person
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A Separate Peace uses this point of view
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New Hampshire during World War II
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The setting of the novel
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Mr. Prud'homme
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example of a flat character
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Quackenbush
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example of a static character
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Phineas
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example of a dynamic character
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Phil Latham
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\"Give it the old college try\"
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Dr. Stanpole
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\"Your friend is dead\"
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Finny
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\"Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half.\"
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Brinker's father
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\"It's your greatest moment, greatest privilege, to serve your country\"
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Gene
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\"I deliberately jounced the limb so you would fall off.\"
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Leper
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\"You always did take me for a fool, didn't you? But I'm no fool anymore.\"
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Brinker
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\"The war/is a bore\"
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Ludsbury
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\"While I'm putting the dormitory back together, I'd better tell you to get rid of that leaking icebox.\"
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Sermon at Devon
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\"If you broke the rules, then they broke you.\"
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Mrs. Lepellier
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\"Well, good heaven, the boy is ill.\"
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Gene
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\"I was on active duty all my timie at school.\"
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Gene
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\"...it seemed appropriate that my baptism there [in Naguamsett] had taken place on the first day of this winter session, and that I had been thrown into it in the middle of the fight.\"
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Finny
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\"...the whole worls in on a Funny Farm now. But it's only the fat old men who get the joke.\"
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Finny
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\"...when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.\"
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Leper
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\"I'm almost glad this war came along. It's like a test, isn't it, and the only things and the people who've evolved the right way survive.\"
