Chapter 11

What is the main idea of this chapter?

Who guesses the truth about why Leper has returned from the war?

One morning Brinker takes Gene into a soundproofed piano room where no one will overhear their conversation. What is Brinker's message to Gene?

What convinces Finny there is a real war going on?

Brinker sends a couple of boys to bring in a "star witness." Who is this witness?

Brinker does not believe that Finny merely lost his balance when he fell out of the tree. Why doesn't he believe this?

The "witness" compares the movement of Finny and Gene on the tree branch to what?

What happens after Finny leaves the room where the mock trial is going on?

Find the section where Brinker is suggesting that Finny didn't just lose his balance and fall out of the tree. Finny thinks about it and says he thinks that the tree did it. He says, "It's an impression I've had. Almost as though the tree shook me out by itself."

What does "impression" mean in this context?

Is there anything that you are unsure about in this chapter?