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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Benny Watts speaks to Beth, what does he tell her about her chess match in Life magazine?
(a) How unusual it was.
(b) She played a perfect game.
(c) The mistake she made.
(d) How brilliant it was.

2. 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.

3. What is the first reason Mr. Shaibel gives for why he will not play chess with Beth?
(a) He does not like her.
(b) He does not play strangers.
(c) He does not want to play chess.
(d) He likes to play chess alone.

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

5. What does Mr. Ganz request the school to allow?
(a) Beth to attend Mr. Ganz' school full time.
(b) Beth to play chess against the other members of Mr. Ganz's high school chess team.
(c) Beth to become a professional chess player.
(d) Beth to start a chess club at the orphanage.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is Beth introduced in Chapter 3?

2. How does Chapter 5 begin?

3. At the tournament in Vegas, the ballroom was set up for 70 chess players, and Beth was at what board?

4. Who is the tallest girl at the orphanage that Beth meets when she first arrives?

5. How often is Beth given a tranquilizer?

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