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

2. What is surprising about the house the Meechams are to live in this time?
(a) It is near the high school.
(b) It is officer's quarters.
(c) It is bigger than most base housing.
(d) It is a rented, civilian home rather than base housing.

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

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

5. Who attempts to console Bull?
(a) Karen.
(b) Ben.
(c) Mary Anne.
(d) Lillian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bull take Matt and Ben to the base?

2. How does Bull insist his men treat him?

3. Where does Bull stop so that everyone can go to the bathroom?

4. Which men does Bull single out in his squad?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mary Anne believe neither she nor Ben will ever be writers?

2. In Chapter 7, what does Bull do to wake his family? Why?

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

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

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

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

7. Why does Bull want Ben to date Ansley Matthews? How does Ben feel about this date?

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

9. What does Bull want his daughter's to be as adults? How does this correspond with Mary Anne's opinion of her own future prospects?

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

(see the answer keys)

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