A Separate Peace

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Excerpt

Vocabulary: Define the following terms, found in chapter one.

• benefactress

• bellicose

• cogitation

• cordiality

• portliness

• emphatically

• qualms

• Maginot Lines

Questions for Review: Answer in complete sentences. You should use references from the text to support each answer.

• How do the jeeps compare to adolescents?

• Why doesn’t anyone ever make Gene feel responsible for Finny’s death?

• Why does Mr. Hadley get upset with Gene and Brinker? Compare/contrast his opinion of military service with Gene’s and Brinker’s opinions.

• Do you agree or disagree with the following statement of Gene’s? : “Because it seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.”

• What has replaced happiness during the war? What is the difference between the two?

• What kind of lasting impression has Finny made on Gene’s life?

• Why doesn’t Gene feel any hatred toward the war any longer?

• Gene says: “I never killed anybody and I never developed an intense level of hatred for the enemy. Because my war ended before I ever put on a uniform; I was on active duty all my time at school; I killed my enemy there.” What do you think he means by this?

• Explain the final paragraph of the novel, in your own words.

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This is a review sheet for chapter 13 of A Separate Peace. It includes vocabulary terms and questions for review/discussion.