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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Beth even happier than the graduation gift from Mrs. Wheatlhey?
(a) Having the summer off to do nothing.
(b) Graduating Suma Cum Laude.
(c) Graduating with honors.
(d) A chess rating of 2243.

2. How does Beth feel when she hears Benny Watts talking to another player?
(a) She knows she is an outsider, being female, and this causes an unpleasant feeling.
(b) She feels shy and unsure of herself.
(c) She feels excited to be a famous chess player.
(d) She feels angry that he is talking to someone else and not her.

3. Six-year-old named Alice came in a month after Beth and is adopted when?
(a) Three months later.
(b) Three years later.
(c) Three days later.
(d) Three weeks later.

4. In Chapter 6, Beth arrives at the U.S. Open in Las Vegas and is surprised about what?
(a) How many spectators there are for the U.S. Open.
(b) That everyone seems oblivious that the U.S. Chess Open is about to take place.
(c) How hot it is in Vegas.
(d) How organized the U.S. Open is.

5. What is the man's response when Beth says she wants to be put in the Open in her first chess tournament?
(a) "You are crazy."
(b) "They will eat you alive."
(c) "Sure, why not?"
(d) "Sorry, I cannot do that."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 5 begin?

2. How is Beth orphaned?

3. Upon returning home, Mrs. Wheatley is not sure how to react to Beth. How does she decide to react?

4. What does Beth buy after winning her first match?

5. As Beth packs, she searched frantically for the one item that mattered the most. What is that item?

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