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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. Where is the orphanage located?
(a) Mount Sterling, Kentucky.
(b) Indianapolis, Indiana.
(c) Lexington, Kentucky.
(d) Louisville, Kentucky.

2. What is the second reason Mr. Shaibel gives for why he will not play chess with Beth?
(a) He does not know how to play chess well enough.
(b) He does not like chess.
(c) Girls do not play chess.
(d) He does not like girls.

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

4. What job does Mr. Shaibel have at the orphanage?
(a) He is the gardener.
(b) He is a teacher.
(c) He is the pharmacist.
(d) He is the janitor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Shaibel tell Beth she must do if she loses the queen in chess?

3. Where is the first chess tournament Beth ever take place in held?

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

5. Every Tuesday, Miss Graham sends Beth down to the basement to do what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Beth’s punishment for attempting to stealing green pills?

5. How does Beth lose her fear of volleyball?

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

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

8. How does Beth describe the Wheatleys?

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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