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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the punishment Beth had received for saying “damn"?
(a) She had lost recess privileges.
(b) She was not allowed to play chess.
(c) Her mouth was washed out with soap.
(d) She had been beaten.

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

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

4. What does Beth get in return for playing Mr. Ganz’s students?
(a) A chess board.
(b) A doll.
(c) A box of chocolates.
(d) Money.

5. Whom does Mrs. Wheatley say are the only girls that work?
(a) Poor girls.
(b) Colored girls.
(c) Desperate girls.
(d) Ugly girls.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chapter 3 begin?

2. When at her first tournament, what is something that Beth does not know about regarding chess tournaments?

3. What does Mr. Ganz request the school to allow?

4. How does the narrator describe Mr. Shaibel?

5. How does Jolene gain access to green pills?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the two reasons Mr. Shaibel gives for why he, at first, refuses to allow Beth to play chess with him?

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

4. What does Beth think and do when a nice couple with an accent comes in to adopt a child?

5. How does Beth describe the Wheatleys?

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

7. How does Beth‘s life at the home improve at the end of Chapter 2?

8. How does Beth get the job of cleaning the erasers after arithmetic class?

9. How is Beth able to get away for a length of time to play chess?

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

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