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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 is unusual about the lawyer Bull befriends at Hobie's?
(a) He only has one hand.
(b) He only has one leg.
(c) He is blind.
(d) He is bald.

2. Who is Red Pettus?
(a) Another flower salesman.
(b) Toomer's neighbor and local bully.
(c) Toomer's cousin.
(d) A local boy Ben has befriended.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Marines Birthday Ball mean to Bull?

3. Who does Ben walk the halls with the first few weeks of school?

4. When does Lillian say she will leave Bull?

5. What song do the Meecham children make fun of behind Bull's back?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does a Naval officer threaten to file a conduct report against Bull?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Varney know about Bull that few others know?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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