<p>Burdette</p><p>The Westing Game</p><p>Chapters 1-4</p><p>1. What do we learn about Grace in the first chapters?</p><p>2. What story does Otis Amber tell the teenagers?</p><p>3. Who is Crow?</p><p>4. How is JJ Ford connected to this group?</p><p>Chapters 5-8</p><p>5. Which character is a snob and prejudiced? How can you tell?</p><p>6. Which character goes out of the way to receive attention? How?</p><p>7. Which character smiles constantly? Why does this character do this?</p><p>8. Describe how the Westing Game is to be played. What are the rules?</p><p>9. What does Angela’s position of “none” tell us about her?</p><p>10. What assumption does each of the pairs of heirs make of their clues?</p><p> a. Turtle</p><p> b. Chris</p><p> c. Sydelle</p><p> d. Judge Ford e. Doug and Theo</p><p>Chapter 9-12</p><p>11. What does Turtle think “refining gold” means?</p><p>12. What does Sydelle think “to win” means?</p><p>13. What does everyone talk to Angela about but it only makes her more depressed?</p><p>14. Describe the character of Mr. Hoo. </p><p>15. What do the various characters use as crutches?</p><p> a. Sydelle</p><p> b. Turtle</p><p> c. Flora</p><p> d. Doug</p><p> e. Grace</p><p> f. Jake</p><p>16. Describe the relationship between Violet and George Theodorakis.</p><p>Chapter 13-16</p><p>17. What motive do you think the bomber has?</p><p>18. What significance doe the way the diners are paired up at dinner have? </p><p> a. Sydelle & Chris b. Judge & Flora</p><p> c. Theo & Angela</p><p>19. What lies or secrets are being exposed in these chapters? </p><p>Chapter 17-20</p><p>20. What clues point to Otis as the murdered? </p><p>21. Analyze the information supplied by the investigator. What is most important to the case and why?</p><p>22. What changes do you see happening with characters in this part of the book?</p><p>Chapter 21-24</p><p>23. How does spying become an issue in this part of the book?</p><p>24. What changes do you see in </p><p> a. Turtle</p><p> b. The Wexlers</p><p> c. Madame Hoo</p><p>25. Which of the heirs’ answers do you find funny or the most interesting? Why?</p><p>26. Describe what happens when the heirs have an answer. Why do they respond the way they do?</p><p>Chapter 25-30 27. How does the one person that Turtle never kicked become an important detail to solving the mystery?</p><p>28. How did the chess game play into the clues?</p><p>29. What does the judge discover about her partner?</p><p>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?</p><p>31. Summarize what happens to all the heirs in later years:</p><p> a. Turtle</p><p> b. Otis and Crow</p><p> c. Theo and Turtle</p><p> d. Angela and D. Denton Deere</p><p> e. Grace</p><p> f. Doug Hoo</p><p> g. J.J. Ford h. Chris</p><p> i. Madame Hoo</p><p> j. Jake Wexler</p><p> k. James Shin Hoo</p><p> l. Sydelle Pulaski</p>