The Plot
Sam Westing was a master at what game.
Chess
Brave 13-year-old girl in story
and What are her four names in the book?
Turtle
1) Tabitha
2) Alice
3) T.R. Wexler
The heirs' clues came from this well-known Patriotic song.
America The Beautiful
This character was "the mistake"
How was this a 'mistake'
Sydelle Pulaski
Sam Westing meant to invite Sybil Pulaski, Crow's college roomate
The winner of the Westing Game
Turtle (T.R.) Wexler
What is happening at Westing estate at the beginning of the story that several characters notice?
Smoke coming from the chimney of the Westing estate
Who was paired with Theo Theodorakis?
Doug Hoo
Sam Westing was dressed as this patriotic personality in his coffin.
Uncle Sam
This character was "the burglar"
Why does this character steal things?
Madame "Sun" Lin Hoo
To raise money to travel back home (China)
What happened to Chris Theodorakis many years later?
He got married and became a professor or ornithology (the study of birds)
Each pair was given a check with this amount at the Westing Game meetings.
$10,000.00
Angela Wexler look liked her and what happened to this person
Violet Westing, Sam Westing's daughter.
She died on the eve before her wedding
This character was the bookie
and why did character likely do this illegal activity (inference)?
Jake Wexler
to make more money for his family
Who's playing chess with Theo when the heirs are at the Westing estate?
What was the last move that this person tried to do to win the game?
Sandy McSouthers
the "Queen's Sacrifice"
T.R. Wexler visited him every Saturday for many years
and where did she visit him?
Sandy as Julian Eastman at his manion
Where did Turtle place the fourth bomb and why?
The elevator at Sunset Towers
To take the blame away (divert suspicion) away from Angela
What is Crow's official job in the Westing Game and what does she do "on the side"?
Cleaning woman at Sunset Towers
In her free time, she runs the "Good Soup Salvation Kitchen"
Tell three facts about Sam Westing's background?
1) Son of immigrants
2) Founder of Westingtown and the Westing Paper Products Corporation
3) Loved to put on Fourth of July celebrations
4) Got in a bad accident
5) Divorced
6) Disappered 15 years ago and is said to run the company from a private island
Name three things Turtle lost when she ran out of the Westing House on Halloween night.
mother's silver cross, two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and a flashlight
Who does Angela's daughter, Alice, visit at the end of the book?
Turtle 'T.R. Wexler"
From what point of view is the story told from? (literary term) and what does that mean
Third-person omniscient point of view
We see the events and hear the perspective from multiple characters' point of view.
Give three facts about Sam Westing and Judge Ford's connection.
1) Parents worked for Sam Westing
2) Josie-Jo Ford played chess with Westing
3) Sam paid for Josie-Jo Ford's private school (and college) education
For most of the beginning, what was Judge Ford's theory on the game?
Sam Westing has made up the game to get back at one of the heirs. She doesn't believe he was actually killed by one of the heirs.
Who is Sam Westing's accomplice in the game?
Explain how he or she helped Sam in the game
Dr. Sydney Sikes
He was the coroner who lied and
Near the end of the novel, Turtle is close to solving the puzle, recalling the will she thinks aloud, "The heir who wins the windfall will be the one who finds the fourth"
What is the "fourth" she is referring to? and who is it?
The fourth identity of Sam Westing
and it is Julian R. Eastman