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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Six-year-old named Alice came in a month after Beth and is adopted when?
(a) Three weeks later.
(b) Three years later.
(c) Three days later.
(d) Three months later.

2. How does one get a rating in chess?
(a) Play 1 game.
(b) Win 4 matches.
(c) Play 30 USCF tournaments and then wait 4 months.
(d) Play for 10 years.

3. As Beth packs, she searched frantically for the one item that mattered the most. What is that item?
(a) Her mother's ring.
(b) Her toothbrush holder filled with green pills.
(c) Her book called Chess Openings.
(d) A present from Jolene.

4. What is Townes doing at the tournament?
(a) Acting as a commentator during the tournament.
(b) Writing an article about the tournament for Chess Review.
(c) Judging the tournament.
(d) Playing in the tournament.

5. What does Beth think the chess game is the first time she ever sees it?
(a) Monopoly.
(b) A sculpture.
(c) Checkers.
(d) A bunch of little dolls.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Beth able to get out of chapel in order to play chess?

2. Although she and Benny would be co-champions and split the prize money, Beth is not consoled. Why?

3. How many pills does Jolene give Beth before her chess match in Chapter 2?

4. To whom does Beth wave goodbye, as the car pulls away from the orphanage?

5. What is the name of the orphanage in which Beth is placed?

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