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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. Where does Beth go when she leaves chapel?
(a) Her room.
(b) Outside.
(c) The basement.
(d) The bathroom.

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. What does Beth get in return for playing Mr. Ganz’s students?
(a) A chess board.
(b) A doll.
(c) A box of chocolates.
(d) Money.

4. When Beth leaves her first chess tournament at ten o'clock, how many, including her, are undefeated?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Mrs. Deardorff rave to the strangers Beth is introduce to in Chapter 3?

2. How does Beth feel when she hears the words “mother” and “dead"?

3. Where is the first chess tournament Beth ever take place in held?

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

5. What does Beth receive for being 15 minutes late for Geography?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do both Mr. Shaibel and Mr. Ganz think of Beth? Why?

2. How is Beth able to get away for a length of time to play chess?

3. What does Beth use to fall asleep at night? Why?

4. How does Beth get the job of cleaning the erasers after arithmetic class?

5. Why does Beth attempt to steal pills from the pharmacy?

6. Where is Beth placed, initially, at her first chess tournament? Why?

7. Why does Beth push past her fear of Mr. Shaibel?

8. How does the reader know that Beth stole pills from Mrs. Wheatley?

9. What are the two reasons Mr. Shaibel gives for why he, at first, refuses to allow Beth to play chess with him?

10. How does Beth describe the Wheatleys?

(see the answer keys)

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