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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. Where does Bull take Ben after breakfast?
(a) The airport.
(b) The basketball courts.
(c) The Marine base.
(d) Biddle Island Marine Training Depot.

2. Where does Ben spend dinner after the basketball game?
(a) At a friend's house.
(b) With his family.
(c) At Toomer's.
(d) In his room.

3. Where is the family moving to?
(a) New Orleans, Louisiana.
(b) Ravenel, South Carolina.
(c) Atlanta, Georgia.
(d) New York City, New York.

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

5. Why are Ben and his siblings at the airfield?
(a) They are arriving home after a trip.
(b) They are getting ready to go on a trip.
(c) They are waiting for a distant relative to arrive.
(d) They are waiting for Bull to come home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ben leave with?

2. Where did Lillian learn about Bull's flight to Cuba?

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

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

5. How does Mary Anne threaten Ben?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Lillian claim is Bull's way of apologizing to Ben?

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

5. What does Mary Anne throw at Bull?

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. What does Bull's behavior at Hobie's say about his personality?

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

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

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

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