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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 Beth feel when she hears Benny Watts talking to another player?
(a) She feels shy and unsure of herself.
(b) She feels excited to be a famous chess player.
(c) She feels angry that he is talking to someone else and not her.
(d) She knows she is an outsider, being female, and this causes an unpleasant feeling.

2. What does Mrs. Wheatley offer Beth, when Beth returns to the hotel room?
(a) A game of chess.
(b) Money.
(c) Her first beer.
(d) A fancy dinner.

3. In what hotel is the second tournament held?
(a) The Ramada Inn.
(b) The Gibson Hotel.
(c) The Hilton Inn.
(d) The Howard Johnson Hotel.

4. Beth‘s third opponent in Chapter 8 shocks her. Why?
(a) He is very young and serious.
(b) She is also female.
(c) He is terrible at chess.
(d) He is very arrogant.

5. Chapter 7 begins where?
(a) At a college party to which Beth was invited.
(b) As Beth is practicing chess.
(c) In Beth's college Russian class.
(d) At a chess tournament.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Beth call Allston Wheatley?

2. What does Beth wish would happen with Townes?

3. When does Beth finally leave the party house?

4. What does Beth decide about the U.S. Championships?

5. Beth knows that the best way to beat Benny is to get him where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Beth worried at the end of Chapter 5?

2. What does Beth do for the first time at the college party?

3. How does Beth beat Benny in Chapter 10?

4. How does Beth end up in New York?

5. How does Beth know that Mrs. Wheatley is dead?

6. Why does Beth still feel like an outsider in chess in Chapter 6?

7. Why is Beth feeling as if her time with Benny is coming to an end at the end of Chapter 11?

8. How does Beth feel about losing to Benny Watts?

9. How does Beth feel about Borgov?

10. What does Beth think of the young chess prodigy in Mexico City?

(see the answer keys)

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