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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bull do when Ben refuses to continue the game?
(a) Bull admits defeat.
(b) Bull agrees that the game is over.
(c) Bull declares himself winner by default.
(d) Bull bounces a ball off of Ben's head and calls him a girl.

2. Who is Toomer?
(a) Arrabelle's son.
(b) Earline's son.
(c) Arrabelle's cousin.
(d) Earline's nephew.

3. Where does Ben meet Bull the night of his eighteenth birthday?
(a) The Officer's Club.
(b) Mac's Diner.
(c) A bar.
(d) Hobie's Grill.

4. When does Lillian say she will leave Bull?
(a) The next time he goes to the base.
(b) The next time he hits Ben.
(c) The next time he is deployed overseas.
(d) The following day.

5. What does Toomer sell?
(a) Hardware.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Pottery.
(d) Flowers.

6. Why does someone throw a shot put ball at Bull?
(a) They are playing a war game.
(b) The children are angry with Bull.
(c) To hurt him.
(d) It is an accident.

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

8. Why does Bull become a regular at the diner?
(a) Bull dislikes spending time with his own family.
(b) Bull believes he must have a good relationship with the community to be a good leader.
(c) Bull likes the company.
(d) Bull believes he needs a good relationship with the local lawyer who is also a regular at the diner.

9. Bull becomes a regular at what diner?
(a) Mac's Diner.
(b) Hobie's Grill.
(c) Bill's Eats.
(d) Ruby's Cafe.

10. Who does Ben leave with?
(a) Mary Anne.
(b) Jim Don Cooper.
(c) Toomer.
(d) Sammy Wertzburger.

11. Where does Ben take Ansley?
(a) To Hobie's Grill.
(b) To the local hangout, the Shack.
(c) To the movies.
(d) To lookout point.

12. Whose poor choice in men does Ben criticize?
(a) Mary Anne's.
(b) Arrabelle's.
(c) Lillian's.
(d) Karen's.

13. What type of man does Bull claim he respects the most?
(a) The type of man who is large and can win any fight.
(b) The type of man who flies without a parachute.
(c) The type of man who gives up without trying.
(d) The type of man who fights for what he has.

14. Who comes to the Meecham house in Chapter 8?
(a) Varney.
(b) Bull's second in command.
(c) Their neighbor, Earline Grantham.
(d) A neighbohood child.

15. Who is Bull Meecham?
(a) An old general with the Army.
(b) A retired Admiral with the Navy.
(c) A new recruit in the Marine Corps.
(d) A fighter pilot with the Marine Corps.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Bull arrange a date?

2. Why does the barber give the boys a military buzz cut?

3. What is unusual about the lawyer Bull befriends at Hobie's?

4. Why does Bull go to speak to the local Catholic priest?

5. Why does the grandmother and the mother both beg the children to behave?

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