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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where have the Meecham children been living for the past year?
(a) With their mother in Ravenel.
(b) With their cousins in New York.
(c) With their grandmother in Atlanta.
(d) With their aunt in Mississippi.

2. How do the children react to Bull's injury?
(a) They find it funny.
(b) They think he deserves it.
(c) They are frightened he will become angry.
(d) They do not react at all.

3. What does Bull tell the kids in his speech?
(a) That they should not try to make friends.
(b) That they should try to do their best.
(c) That they should be stars in their new community.
(d) That they should be patient, it takes time to adjust to a new place.

4. Who does Lillian encourage Bull to play around with?
(a) His children.
(b) His buddies.
(c) The neighborhood kids.
(d) His friends at Hobie's.

5. What does Lillian say when Ben asks if she loves Bull?
(a) She has no other choice because she cannot afford to divorce him.
(b) He is a good provider.
(c) She does love him.
(d) He will kill her if she leaves him.

6. Where has Bull been for the past year?
(a) Visiting relatives.
(b) Sick in the hospital.
(c) Deployed on an Army base in Germany.
(d) Deployed on a carrier in the Mediterranean.

7. Who addresses Bull's squad before the Cuba mission?
(a) Varney.
(b) Lillian.
(c) Hobie.
(d) Hedgepath.

8. Who is Arrabelle Smalls?
(a) Arrabelle is Bull's sister.
(b) Arrabelle is the Meechams' new maid.
(c) Arrabelle is Varney's wife.
(d) Arrabelle is the Meechams' neighbor.

9. What does Bull call Southerners?
(a) Grits.
(b) Oatmeal.
(c) Rednecks.
(d) Hicks.

10. Who throws a shot put at Bull?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) Ben.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Karen.

11. Who dies first in the game?
(a) Ben.
(b) Matt.
(c) Karen.
(d) Mary Anne.

12. What does Bull goad Ben into doing at the Officer's Club?
(a) Have an alcoholic drink.
(b) Get into a fight.
(c) Steal a car.
(d) Play darts.

13. Who does Bull admire that surprises Lillian?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Africans.
(c) The Russians.
(d) The Jews.

14. What happens when Bull is bored?
(a) Bull hangs out in bars.
(b) Bull tries to repair things that are not broken.
(c) Bull cleans things, but not well.
(d) Bull becomes agitated and violent.

15. How does Mary Anne threaten Ben?
(a) Mary Anne threatens to tell Bull Ben is a coward.
(b) Mary Anne threatens to tell the police Ben started the fight.
(c) Mary Anne threatens to tell their mother that Ben was fighting.
(d) Mary Anne threatens to tell the girls at the school that Ben is unavailible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lillian deny Bull has ever done?

2. What does Ben show Lillian to prove Bull's cruelty against her?

3. What does Mary Ann flick at Bull with her spoon?

4. Who is Ben Meecham?

5. Where does Bull take Ben after breakfast?

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