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

2. Who is Beth's first opponent in her first chess tournament?
(a) Beltik.
(b) Annie Myatt.
(c) Annette Packer.
(d) Sarah Fielding.

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

4. To where is Beth moving?
(a) Sterling, Kentucky.
(b) Indianapolis, Indiana.
(c) Lexington, Kentucky.
(d) Louisville, Kentucky.

5. To whom is Beth introduced in Chapter 3?
(a) New students.
(b) New chess coaches.
(c) Mr. and Mrs. Wheatley.
(d) New teachers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Beth at the start of Chapter 3?

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

3. What is the question that Jolene asks Beth, when she first meets her?

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

5. About what does Mrs. Deardorff rave to the strangers Beth is introduce to in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What do most of the chess players at the tournament have in common?

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

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

9. How does Beth describe the Wheatleys?

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

(see the answer keys)

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