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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 the Marines Birthday Ball mean to Bull?
(a) It's not important to Bull at all.
(b) It's a time to remember fallen comrades.
(c) It's a time to get drunk.
(d) It's an excuse to get out of the house.

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

3. What does Lillian suggest Bull do when he meets with Varney?
(a) Treat him like a brother.
(b) Treat him with the distain he deserves.
(c) Treat him the same as he did in boot camp.
(d) Treat him the respect his rank demands.

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

5. What do Ben and Mary Anne see Red Pettus doing in the hall at school?
(a) Teasing Matt for being a military brat.
(b) Torturing Karen.
(c) Teasing Toomer for his stutter.
(d) Torturing a young Jewish boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Ben and his siblings at the airfield?

2. Who does Ansley leave Ben to hang out with?

3. Where do Ben and Toomer go the Saturday after they meet?

4. What does Bull want his sons to become?

5. Who wins the basketball game?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lillian tell Ben that brings him to tears?

2. Why does Lillian defend Bull?

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

4. What is the significance of the Marine Corps Hymn to Bull? To the Meecham children?

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

6. In Chapter 8, what does Lillian congratulate Bull for doing? Why?

7. Why are the Meecham children less than enthusiastic about their father's return after a year's deployment?

8. What happens on Ben's date with Ansley?

9. Bull sits and reflects after the change of command ceremony that gives him command of his own squad. How does Bull feel?

10. Who is Toomer? Why does Ben believe his mother encouraged him to go fishing with Toomer?

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