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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the man's response when Beth says she wants to be put in the Open in her first chess tournament?
(a) "Sorry, I cannot do that."
(b) "They will eat you alive."
(c) "You are crazy."
(d) "Sure, why not?"

2. At the tournament in Vegas, the ballroom was set up for 70 chess players, and Beth was at what board?
(a) Board 9.
(b) Board 2.
(c) Board 1.
(d) Board 12.

3. What do the children who have been at the orphanage for a long time call themselves?
(a) Lifers.
(b) Loveless.
(c) Full-time orphans.
(d) Hopeless.

4. What does everyone eat on Fridays?
(a) Fish.
(b) Mush.
(c) Cake.
(d) Steak.

5. What does Mrs. Deardorff think about Beth playing chess with the janitor?
(a) It is most irregular.
(b) It is inappropriate.
(c) It is very kind.
(d) It is pathetic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Beth think the chess game is the first time she ever sees it?

2. What does Townes want to do for Beth, while at the tournament in Las Vegas?

3. How does Chapter 3 begin?

4. How do all the girls wear their hair at the orphanage?

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

(see the answer key)

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