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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. Who does Ben help to his feet during his first basketball game?
(a) Pinky.
(b) Art Ballard.
(c) Jim Don Cooper.
(d) An opposing player.

2. Who bails Ben out of jail?
(a) Sammy.
(b) Lillian.
(c) Bull.
(d) Mr. Dacus.

3. Who tells Lillian about Bull's plane crash?
(a) Sammy.
(b) Hedgepath.
(c) Ben.
(d) Varney.

4. Where is Bull's body found?
(a) In a field.
(b) In the river.
(c) Near a bar.
(d) At Hobie's Grill.

5. What does Ben want to do when he first finds his father passed out on the Lawn?
(a) Leave him there.
(b) Stomp him in the head.
(c) Kiss him.
(d) Spit on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Lillian have an argument before dinner the night of the big basketball game?

2. What does Sammy confide to Ben about his date?

3. Who is Rock Troy?

4. Why is Bull excited about Ben's next basketball game?

5. What does Causey want his squad and Bull's squad to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who instructs the male students on sex during catechism? Why?

2. What does Mary Anne confess to Ben during the prom?

3. Why is Arrabelle frightened for Toomer in the aftermath of the rape?

4. Who is Junior Palmer?

5. What does Sammy see at lover's point? What does he hope to do with the information?

6. What is the focus of Sister Loretta's discussion on sex? How does Ben react to this discussion?

7. Why does Mr. Loring tease Ben in his English class? How does Ben feel about this attention?

8. Why does Ben go to Toomer's even after Bull refuses to allow him to go?

9. Why does Ben want to avoid the local hang-out after being thrown off the basketball team/.

10. What does Ben say to his father while taking him home after a night of drinking and fighting?

(see the answer keys)

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