1) TRUE or FALSE: A base runner is out if a fair untouched batted ball strikes her after it passes any infielder and the umpire judges that another fielder has an opportunity to make an out.

2) MULTIPLE CHOICE: A slide is illegal if:  A. The runner uses a rolling or cross-body slide into the fielder. B. The runner's raised leg is higher than the fielder's knee when the fielder is in a standing position. C. The runner slashes or kicks the fielder with either leg. D. The runner goes beyond the base and makes contact with or alters the play of the fielder. E. All of the above.

 3) TRUE or FALSE:  Materials inside the bat or treatments/devices used to alter the bat specifications and/or enhance performance are prohibited and render the bat illegal.

4) TRUE or FALSE: Instant replay to protest an umpire's decision is legal.

 5) TRUE or FALSE: The use of electronic devices by team personnel in the dugout/bench area to transmit or record information pertaining to a player or team's performance is legal.

6) TRUE or FALSE: In the fifth inning, F8 is injured. Team A has no eligible substitutes remaining. In the sixth inning, an eligible substitute arrives at the ball park. She may enter the game in the vacated batting position.

7) TRUE or FALSE: Media may be in a live-ball area if properly marked by the home team or game management.

8) TRUE or FALSE:  A team using a DP/FLEX may finish a game with eight players on defense (DP playing defense for another player) and seven players in the batting order.

9) TRUE or FALSE:  If there is an excessive amount of blood on any part of the uniform, that part of the uniform must be changed before that individual may participate.

10) TRUE or FALSE: After a dead-ball situation, the ball becomes live when it is held by the pitcher on the pitcher's plate and the umpire signals "play ball."

11) TRUE or FALSE:  It is possible for the DP and the FLEX to both play offense at the same time.

 12) TRUE or FALSE:  A coach may be in possession of electronic communication devices in the coaching box, provided they are being used for coaching purposes.

13) TRUE or FALSE: When an improper batter becomes a runner and the defense correctly appeals, the proper batter is declared out, and all runners not declared out on the play return to the base occupied at the time of the pitch.

14) TRUE or FALSE: The taper is the area which connects the narrower handle to the wider barrel portion of the bat. The taper shall have a smooth, solid surface and a conical shape.

15) TRUE or FALSE: To utilize a courtesy runner in the top of the first inning, the pitcher and catcher are identified as those players listed in the lineup as playing those positions; both must occupy those positions in the bottom of the first inning until the first batter has completed her turn at bat.

16) TRUE or FALSE: A distance of 185 to 235 feet from home plate to the nearest obstruction on fair ground is recommended for interscholastic softball contests.

17) MULTIPLE CHOICE: The softball field includes an elevated cement step in front of each dugout. B1 hits a foul fly caught by F3 such that her right foot is on the ground completely in live-ball territory and her left foot is on the elevated cement step with half the foot on the step and the other half over live-ball territory but completely off the ground. What is the result of the play?  A. B1 is out on a good catch by F3; the ball is live and in play. B. Foul ball; the ball is dead and B1 remains at bat.  C. B1 is out on a good catch by F3; the ball is dead. D. Foul ball; the ball is live and in play and B1 remains at bat. E. None of the above.

18) TRUE or FALSE: With R1 on first, B2 bunts a ball to F5 and both R1 and B2 advance safely. The defense protests the batter before the next pitch because B2 batted with a Reebok Vector that has holes in the taper part of the bat. B2 is declared out and R1 is put back on first base.

19) TRUE or FALSE: After the DP/FLEX option is declared at the pregame conference with the submission/verification of the lineup card, a team may go down to nine players before the first pitch is thrown.

20) TRUE or FALSE: Team members are players listed on the team roster and lineup as submitted to the umpire at the pregame meeting.

21) TRUE or FALSE:  B7, who was a starting player batting in the seventh batting position and who left the game in the third inning, may re-enter the game in the sixth inning in the fourth batting position.

22) TRUE or FALSE: A batter is out on proper appeal when she fails to bat in her proper turn and another batter completes a time at bat in her place.

23) TRUE or FALSE: A dead ball is called if an obstructed runner is tagged out between the two bases where the obstruction occurred.

24) TRUE or FALSE:  Score the run if the runner advances to home before the third out is made by the batter-runner being tagged out at second base attempting a double.

25) MULTIPLE CHOICE: All of the following are true regarding the knob of the bat, EXCEPT:  A. It may be molded, lathed, welded or permanently fastened. B. Devices, attachments or wrappings are permitted that do not cause the knob to become flush with the handle. C. It must protrude at a 90-degree angle from the handle. D. A one-piece rubber knob and bat grip combination is illegal.

26) TRUE or FALSE:  While in the pitching position, the pitcher must take (or simulate taking) a signal from the catcher.

27) TRUE or FALSE: A legal substitute may replace a courtesy runner on a base, but the substitute is actually replacing the pitcher/catcher in the lineup for whom the courtesy runner is running and the pitcher/catcher has left the game.

28) TRUE or FALSE: The fielder is still considered to be making an initial play if she does not gain control of a batted ground ball but is still within a "step and reach" from the spot of the initial contact.

29) TRUE or FALSE:  If a runner is tagged out between the two bases where she was obstructed, the runner is awarded the base(s) she would have reached had there been no obstruction.

30) MULTIPLE CHOICE: All of the following are true regarding gloves/mitts, EXCEPT:  A. Gloves shall be a maximum of two colors, excluding lacing and manufacturer's logo. B. Glove lacing shall not be the color of the ball. C. Gloves shall not be entirely gray, white or optic in color. D. Gloves may have one American flag not exceeding 2 by 3 inches. E. Gloves may have markings that give the appearance of the ball on the outside, but not the inside.