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A Separate Peace
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English
11th Grade
05/17/2009

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The author of the novel
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John Knowles
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The war that was taking place
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World War Two
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What piece of school uniform Finny wore incorrectly
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tie as a belt
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Which shirt of Finny's did Gene wear
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pink shirt
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The first student to enlist
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Leper
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Finny decides to train Gene for this
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1944 Olympics
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What brought the Winter Carnival to an end
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telegram from Leper to Gene
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The ugly river Gene fell into with Quakenbush
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the Naguamsett
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The clean river the boys jump into while still innocent
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The Devon
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Symbolic of the gaining of knowledge
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the fall from the tree
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Gene's jealousy over Finny reaches its peak when
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he realizes Finny was never competing
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Gene felt he Finny were equal when he believed that
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Finny was sabatoging his attempt to be first in his class
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Leper "escaped" the army to avoid
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a section eight discharge
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The politician of the class; he puts Gene on trial
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Brinker
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Finny broke what school record?
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swimming
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Gene believes that Finny would be no good in a war because
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he would make friends with the enemy
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Finny's war time game that had no teams
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Blitzball
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Finny believed that when playing sports
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everybody wins
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Calls Gene maimed
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Quackenbush
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The reason Gene did not cry at Finny's funeral
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he felt like it was his own
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The two places the narrator wanted to see on his return to the school
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tree and marble steps
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The star witness at the trial
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Leper
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The two casualties of the war who never saw battle
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Finny and Leper
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Why Finny denied the war
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he could not be a part of it
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Brinker puts Gene on trial because he believes
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they need to talk about Finny's accident
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Finny dies because
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bone marrow breaks loose and stops his heart
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The doctor is surprised by Finny's death because
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the break was a simple one
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Gene confesses to the jouncing the limb
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shortly after it happens while Finny is still at home
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Gene is accused by Leper of being what
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a savage underneath
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Finny was secretly writing to whom?
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any army branch he thought might take him
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Finny encouraged Gene to leave his studies and play because
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he thought academics came easily to him like sports did for Finny
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