View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Beth packs, she searched frantically for the one item that mattered the most. What is that item?
(a) Her book called Chess Openings.
(b) A present from Jolene.
(c) Her mother's ring.
(d) Her toothbrush holder filled with green pills.

2. What does Mrs. Deardorff threaten if the children do not to eat every bite?
(a) You would not get adopted.
(b) You would not get food the next day.
(c) You would lose recess privileges.
(d) You would get sick.

3. What do the children who have been at the orphanage for a long time call themselves?
(a) Lifers.
(b) Loveless.
(c) Hopeless.
(d) Full-time orphans.

4. What class does Beth dislike the most?
(a) English.
(b) Gym.
(c) Music.
(d) Math.

5. Where does Beth go when she leaves chapel?
(a) The basement.
(b) The bathroom.
(c) Outside.
(d) Her room.

6. What is so special about Beth‘s new bedroom?
(a) There is a chess board sitting on the nightstand.
(b) It is painted her favorite color, pink.
(c) She had never had her own room before.
(d) It has a beautiful view of the garden.

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

8. What is the question that Jolene asks Beth, when she first meets her?
(a) Where are you from?
(b) How old are you?
(c) You a real orphan or a bastard?
(d) Why are you not adopted yet?

9. What surprises Beth about Mrs. Wheatley?
(a) How composed she is.
(b) How smart she is.
(c) How well she can lie.
(d) How loving she is.

10. About what does Mrs. Deardorff rave to the strangers Beth is introduce to in Chapter 3?
(a) Beth's beauty.
(b) Beth's chess playing skills.
(c) Beth's kindness.
(d) Beth‘s academic accomplishments.

11. Every Tuesday, Miss Graham sends Beth down to the basement to do what?
(a) Empty the garbage.
(b) Find Mr. Shaibel.
(c) Clean the erasers.
(d) Sit in time out.

12. Why is Beth told she has to start in the beginner group in her first chess tournament?
(a) She does not have a rating.
(b) She is under eighteen years old.
(c) She is a girl.
(d) She has no guardian present.

13. How does one get a rating in chess?
(a) Win 4 matches.
(b) Play 1 game.
(c) Play 30 USCF tournaments and then wait 4 months.
(d) Play for 10 years.

14. What does Mrs. Deardorff think about Beth playing chess with the janitor?
(a) It is very kind.
(b) It is pathetic.
(c) It is most irregular.
(d) It is inappropriate.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What excuse does Beth give to Mr. Ganz, so she can take the green pills given by Jolene?

3. How do all the girls wear their hair at the orphanage?

4. What is the color of the tranquilizer pill?

5. What is the name of the orphanage in which Beth is placed?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 545 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample