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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Jolene at the beginning of the book?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

2. When does Harry Beltic decide it is time to move out of Beth's home?
(a) When he has enough money to get his own apartment.
(b) When he and Beth start to argue.
(c) When he can no longer beat her at chess.
(d) When he has found a new girlfriend.

3. What does Beth not know about the winner of the U.S. Open champion?
(a) He or she gets to train with the best players from around the world.
(b) He or she is invited to compete in Moscow.
(c) He or she must defend his or her title the following year.
(d) He or she wins a lifelong membership to the National Chess Organization.

4. Beth feels how the tournament in Chapter 10 is second-rate, as chess does not have the popularity of what sports?
(a) Football or basketball.
(b) Golf or tennis.
(c) Baseball or tennis.
(d) Gymnastics or swimming.

5. When at her first tournament, what is something that Beth does not know about regarding chess tournaments?
(a) How to keep score.
(b) How to play against someone else.
(c) Chess clocks.
(d) Who goes first.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Mr. Shaibel?

2. How does Beth feel when Mrs. Wheatley says her fling with Manuel is over?

3. Why does Beth abstain from drinking in Chapter 7?

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

5. What does Mr. Shaibel tell Beth she must do if she loses the queen in chess?

(see the answer key)

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