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Important Events
Genre
Dynamic Characters
Setting
Clues
100
This traps the heirs inside Sunset Towers after they receive their clues.
What is a blizzard?
100
The genre of The Westing Game.
What is mystery?
100
This character is hired by Sam Westing to keep an eye on one of the heirs and ends up marrying her.
Who is Otis Amber?
100
In what state does the novel take place?
Wisconsin.
100
Mr. Hoo says that the clues are _______.
What is jibberish?
200
This is lying in Sam Westing's coffin instead of his corpse.
What is a wax dummy?
200
The main problem that characters in a mystery usually have to solve.
What is a crime?
200
This character resents Sam Westing for not being able to pay off her debt to him, but then realizes that she was playing the game with him all along, and is finally able to repay him in the end by giving away her share of the money.
Who is J. J. Ford?
200
What body of water do the people of Sunset Towers have a view of from their windows?
What is Lake Michigan?
200
Many of the heirs think Otis Amber is guilty. This is an example of _____.
What is a red herring?
300
The chess move that Sam Westing is most known for.
What is The Queen's Sacrifice?
300
Someone who might have seen the crime in progress.
What is a witness?
300
This character steals in order to pay for a trip home, but feels guilty and returns the items to their rightful owners.
Who is Madame Hoo?
300
The fictional town where the novel takes place.
What is Westingtown?
300
Turtle thinks that the clues mean she should invest her money in this.
What is the stock market?
400
Crow gives her clues to this person.
Who is Angela?
400
Someone who might have committed a crime.
What is a suspect?
400
This character learns that she has a lot in common with Sam Westing, and inherits his love for business and chess.
Who is Turtle?
400
At the beginning of the novel, smoke can be seen coming from this place.
What is the Westing House?
400
All of the clues together are parts of this song.
What is America the Beautiful?
500
The number of bombs that went off in the novel.
What is four?
500
Something that looks like a clue but in reality is not.
What is a red herring?
500
This character lost her biological daughter, but gained a daughter during the course of the novel.
Who is Flora Baumbach?
500
The month of the year when the heirs play the game.
What is November?
500
The person who Chris sees coming out of the Westing house has this.
What is a limp?