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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Beth receive for being 15 minutes late for Geography?
(a) Detention.
(b) 10 demerits.
(c) A beating.
(d) 5 demerits.

2. How does the narrator describe Mr. Shaibel?
(a) He is tall and handsome.
(b) He is short and stooped.
(c) He is round and jolly.
(d) He is fatter on one side than on the other.

3. From whom does Beth learn of her mother’s death?
(a) Her father.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) A woman with a clipboard.

4. How does Beth feel after her first chess win?
(a) She is pleasantly surprised.
(b) She has never felt so wonderful in her life.
(c) She is in shock.
(d) She is worried about losing the next game.

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

6. What does everyone eat on Fridays?
(a) Mush.
(b) Steak.
(c) Cake.
(d) Fish.

7. Who is the best volleyball player?
(a) Jolene.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Alice.
(d) Beth.

8. To whom does Beth wave goodbye, as the car pulls away from the orphanage?
(a) Mr. Fergussen.
(b) Jolene.
(c) Mr. Shaidel.
(d) Mrs. Deardorff.

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

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

11. What does Mr. Shaibel tell Beth she must do if she loses the queen in chess?
(a) She must find a new queen.
(b) She must resign.
(c) She must continue to play without the queen.
(d) She must give her queen to her opponent.

12. What excuse does Beth give to Mr. Ganz, so she can take the green pills given by Jolene?
(a) She needs to go back to her room for something.
(b) She needs to take some medication.
(c) She needs to use the bathroom.
(d) She needs to speak to her friend.

13. When at her first tournament, what is something that Beth does not know about regarding chess tournaments?
(a) How to play against someone else.
(b) How to keep score.
(c) Chess clocks.
(d) Who goes first.

14. How does Jolene help Beth?
(a) She lies for her in English class.
(b) She gives her tips for playing volleyball better.
(c) She hugs her when she gets hurt.
(d) She gives her the answers to math tests.

15. Who gives the children their pills?
(a) Mr. Shaidel.
(b) Mr. Fergussen.
(c) Mrs. Deardorff.
(d) Mr. Ganz.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Deardorff threaten if the children do not to eat every bite?

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

3. When Beth leaves her first chess tournament at ten o'clock, how many, including her, are undefeated?

4. To whom is Beth introduced in Chapter 3?

5. How many chess boards can Beth visualize playing at once?

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