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

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

3. How is Beth able to get out of chapel in order to play chess?
(a) She sneaks out.
(b) She asks permission to go to the restroom.
(c) She asks if she can help Mr. Shaibel.
(d) She says she is sick and needs to lie down.

4. Where is the first chess tournament Beth ever take place in held?
(a) In a mall.
(b) In a convention center.
(c) In a large classroom.
(d) In a gymnasium.

5. How old is Beth at the start of Chapter 3?
(a) She is almost 20.
(b) She is 16.
(c) She is 10.
(d) She is just two months shy of 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom does Beth learn of her mother’s death?

2. Who is the best volleyball player?

3. What do the children who have been at the orphanage for a long time call themselves?

4. Where is the orphanage located?

5. How old is Jolene at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the reader first learn about Beth’s appearance? How does she describe herself?

2. What do both Mr. Shaibel and Mr. Ganz think of Beth? Why?

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

4. Where is Beth placed, initially, at her first chess tournament? Why?

5. What is the punishment for cursing? How does Beth know that what Ralph shouts from the Boys’ Ward is probably a bad word?

6. What does Beth use to fall asleep at night? Why?

7. How does Beth lose her fear of volleyball?

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

9. What are three things that Beth learns from taking part in her first chess tournament?

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

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