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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. How does Ben feel about Mr. Loring's teasing?
(a) Ben is embarrassed, but likes the attention.
(b) Ben is hurt and no longer likes Mr. Loring.
(c) Ben is embarrassed and plans to go to the principal.
(d) Ben enjoys the attention.

2. What happens when Ben and Sammy arrive to pick up their blackmail money?
(a) Junior pays them.
(b) Junior beats them up.
(c) Nothing. Junior never shows.
(d) Junior arrests them.

3. Why does Bull go for a night flight?
(a) To oversee a mission his squad must undertake.
(b) To make sure his plane is in good mechanical repair.
(c) To practice a new manuever.
(d) To satisfy his monthly flight hour requirements.

4. Why does Bull call home?
(a) To make sure the kids did their homework.
(b) To tell Lillian to take out the trash.
(c) To let Lillian know where he is.
(d) To ask Mary Anne to meet him at the bar.

5. Why do Ben and Sammy spend Saturday night at lover's lane rather than the local hang out?
(a) Ben is ashamed of his behavior during the basketball game and does not want to see his teammates.
(b) Sammy wants to find out if the girl he likes has a boyfriend.
(c) Ben wants to see if Jim Don and Ansley are at lover's point.
(d) They are looking for Mary Anne.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game did Sammy tell the girls he plays?

2. Who does teach the boys?

3. What does Sister Loretta say a human body is?

4. Who tells Ben she often thinks of dying?

5. Why does Bull restrict Ben to just bread and tea before the game?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Ben the only one held after Sammy and Ben are arrested attempting to blackmail Junior?

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

3. Bull dies a hero. How does this affect the family dynamics?

4. What is significant about the sexual discussions in the locker room?

5. Why does Ben invite Mary Anne to the prom?

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

7. Why does Bull criticize Ben's play during his first basketball game? How does Ben feel about this?

8. What is Ben's biggest fear as he tries out for basketball?

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

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

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