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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ben show Lillian to prove Bull's cruelty against her?
(a) A video tape.
(b) A hospital bill.
(c) A bloody T-shirt.
(d) A picture of her bruised face.

2. With whom does Bull meet after the ceremony in Chapter 12?
(a) His old buddies from boot camp.
(b) His fellow squad leaders.
(c) His family.
(d) The officers of his squad.

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

4. What does Ben really want to do when he grows up?
(a) Be a priest.
(b) Be a writer.
(c) Be a Marine like Bull.
(d) Be a teacher.

5. Who does Ansley leave Ben to hang out with?
(a) Jim Don Cooper.
(b) Toomer.
(c) Mary Anne.
(d) Sammy Wertzburger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mary Anne threaten Ben?

2. Who dies first in the game?

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

4. What does Toomer sell?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Bull refuse to discuss with Lillian his assignment to fly over Cuba?

2. How does Bull react when he loses the basketball game against Ben?

3. Why does Lillian defend Bull?

4. Who is Arrabelle Smalls and why has she come to the Meecham home?

5. On the first day of school, who goads Ben into fighting with Red Pettus? Why?

6. Why do both the Meecham children's mother and grandmother plead with the children to behave on the road trip to South Carolina?

7. Why does Bull begin having breakfast at Hobie's Grill?

8. Bull gives a speech to the officers in his new squad. What does Bull tell them?

9. What surprise does Bull have for his family when they reach Ravenel?

10. Why does Ben challenge Bull to a basketball game?

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