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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 is NOT a punishment given to Beth for stealing the pills?
(a) No chess.
(b) She is beaten.
(c) No movies on Saturdays.
(d) No recess.

2. How does Jolene gain access to green pills?
(a) She has been hoarding pills for years.
(b) She steals them from the pharmacy.
(c) She and Mr. Fergussen are friendly.
(d) She sweet-talks Mrs. Deardorff.

3. How often is Beth given a tranquilizer?
(a) Once a week.
(b) As needed for anxiety.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Twice a day.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How is Beth able to get out of chapel in order to play chess?

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

5. When Beth steals green pills from the pharmacy, how many does she take?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Beth keep Mrs. Wheatley from knowing she has stolen money from her?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How was Beth able to beat all of Mr. Ganz’s chess students?

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

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