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Question #11
Is there anything that you are unsure about in this chapter?
Question #4
Leper told Gene the army was going to give him something. What was it?
Question #9
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?
Question #2
How does Brinker's father talk about his war experience?
Question #5
The narrator notices something about the marble stairs that wasn't obvious to him when he was a student attending school there. What characteristic of the stairs does he notice?
Question #1
What is this chapter mainly about?
Question #6
Find the section where Gene realizes Finny wants him to fail. Gene believes "Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies."
What does "deliberately" mean in this context?
Question #2
How does the atmosphere of Winter Session at Devon School differ from that of the Summer Session?
Question #7
Find the section at the beginning of the chapter where Brinker comes into Gene's room and suggests that Gene knew in advance that he would have a dorm room to himself this semester. Gene nervously denies this. "My voice sounded too strained even to my own blood–pounded ears."
What does "strained" mean in this context?