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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How often is Beth given a tranquilizer?

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

4. To whom is Beth introduced in Chapter 3?

5. From whom does Beth learn of her mother’s death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What do most of the chess players at the tournament have in common?

5. How does Beth keep Mrs. Wheatley from knowing she has stolen money from her?

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

7. Why does Beth steal money from Mrs. Wheatley?

8. What are two things that Beth realizes she has figured out in the first chapter?

9. How does Beth lose her fear of volleyball?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Beth is placed in an orphanage early on in the book. What were orphanages like during this time period? Why might they have been this way? Based on the information given in the book, how did institutions such as this one affect the children in them? How might they have also affected the adults who worked there?

Essay Topic 2

Beth is insecure in many ways. What are a few of them? How do you know this? In what is she secure? In what ways is she confident? How does learning make her confident? What can be learned by this?

Essay Topic 3

The relationship between Beth and Mrs. Wheatley begins to develop in Chapter 5. What jumpstarts their relationship? How does their relationship develop over the course of the book? What events lead to changes in their relationship?

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