Multiple choice questions about "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles??

Question

1. Gene's fight with Quackenbush symbolizes

a. Finny's innocence.

b. Gene's inner turmoil.

c. the oncoming war.

d. the change from adolescence to manhood.

2. Question 15 2 points Save

At the end, Gene's experience with Finny leads him to

a. become bitter and cynical.

b. acquire greater self-knowledge.

c.lose all interest in the outside world.

d. become more traditional.

Also, can anybody give three specific weather descriptions in the book? And which chapter they are located??

Thanks...

Answer 1

If you want the answers here:

1.b, he just can't stand be looked down upon anymore.

2.I believe c. He ends up not doing anything at the end. No enlistment or stuff.

Weather descriptions:

I don't remember what chapter it was but look for the one where Gene looks out his window and sees snow falling on the ground. Its somewhere after Phineas comes back to the dorm.

-There is a description about summer in either chapter 3 or 4

-the Fall description starts at chapter 6