1. What Do We Learn About Grace in the First Chapters?

Burdette

The Westing Game

Chapters 1-4

1. What do we learn about Grace in the first chapters?

2. What story does Otis Amber tell the teenagers?

3. Who is Crow?

4. How is JJ Ford connected to this group?

Chapters 5-8

5. Which character is a snob and prejudiced? How can you tell?

6. Which character goes out of the way to receive attention? How?

7. Which character smiles constantly? Why does this character do this?

8. Describe how the Westing Game is to be played. What are the rules?

9. What does Angela’s position of “none” tell us about her?

10. What assumption does each of the pairs of heirs make of their clues?

a. Turtle

b. Chris

c. Sydelle

d. Judge Ford e. Doug and Theo

Chapter 9-12

11. What does Turtle think “refining gold” means?

12. What does Sydelle think “to win” means?

13. What does everyone talk to Angela about but it only makes her more depressed?

14. Describe the character of Mr. Hoo.

15. What do the various characters use as crutches?

a. Sydelle

b. Turtle

c. Flora

d. Doug

e. Grace

f. Jake

16. Describe the relationship between Violet and George Theodorakis.

Chapter 13-16

17. What motive do you think the bomber has?

18. What significance doe the way the diners are paired up at dinner have?

a. Sydelle & Chris b. Judge & Flora

c. Theo & Angela

19. What lies or secrets are being exposed in these chapters?

Chapter 17-20

20. What clues point to Otis as the murdered?

21. Analyze the information supplied by the investigator. What is most important to the case and why?

22. What changes do you see happening with characters in this part of the book?

Chapter 21-24

23. How does spying become an issue in this part of the book?

24. What changes do you see in

a. Turtle

b. The Wexlers

c. Madame Hoo

25. Which of the heirs’ answers do you find funny or the most interesting? Why?

26. Describe what happens when the heirs have an answer. Why do they respond the way they do?

Chapter 25-30 27. How does the one person that Turtle never kicked become an important detail to solving the mystery?

28. How did the chess game play into the clues?

29. What does the judge discover about her partner?

30. The clue, “it is not what you have, it is what you don’t have that counts” helps solve the mystery in what way?

31. Summarize what happens to all the heirs in later years:

a. Turtle

b. Otis and Crow

c. Theo and Turtle

d. Angela and D. Denton Deere

e. Grace

f. Doug Hoo

g. J.J. Ford h. Chris

i. Madame Hoo

j. Jake Wexler

k. James Shin Hoo

l. Sydelle Pulaski