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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. How old is Beth at the start of Chapter 3?
(a) She is 16.
(b) She is almost 20.
(c) She is 10.
(d) She is just two months shy of 13.

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

3. Beth wants to do what, more than anything, in Chapter 1?
(a) Go to good college.
(b) Win.
(c) Swim.
(d) Be adopted.

4. How does Chapter 3 begin?
(a) With Beth in Mrs. Deardorff's office.
(b) With Beth playing chess.
(c) With Beth taking green pills.
(d) With Beth getting adopted.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Beth go when she leaves chapel?

2. What does everyone eat on Fridays?

3. How many students does Beth beat at chess at Mr. Ganz’s school?

4. How old is Jolene at the beginning of the book?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Beth describe the Wheatleys?

4. How was Beth able to beat all of Mr. Ganz’s chess students?

5. What are all the children given at the orphanage in little paper cups? Why? How does Beth feel about this?

6. How do the majority of the players react to Beth’s chess skills at her first tournament?

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

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

9. What does Beth think and do when a nice couple with an accent comes in to adopt a child?

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

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