The Westing Game, Chapters 18-20

Turtle and Flora Baumbach are partners in Sam Westing's game, but they are also starting to form a bond. Turtle decides that Flora's last name sounds too much like the word, "bomb." What does Turtle start calling her instead of Mrs. Baumbach?

• Flora

• Baba

• Partner

• Mrs. Blankbach

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We find out who is the "mistake" at the end of Chapter 19. Who turns out to be the mistake?

• Berthe Crow

• Otis Amber

• Sydelle Pulaski

• Judge JJ Ford

Which of the following is NOT true about Flora Baumbach's daughter, Rosalie?

• She had an intellectual disability.

• She died of pneumonia at age 19.

• She loved collecting colorful fabric swatches.

• All of these were true about Rosalie.

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Theo asks Doug Hoo to follow one of the heirs around town. Doug agrees, and he ends up jogging after this heir, following the heir to a shopping center, hospital, stockbroker's office, to the high school, and back to Sunset Towers. Who is the heir he is following?

• Chris T.

• Flora Baumbach

• D. Denton Deere

• Otis Amber

Berthe Crow is at first convinced that James Shin Hoo is the bomber. However, when she goes to his restaurant, he gives her one of his latest creations. She is so impressed with this gift that she decides that he was so generous that he "couldn't be the bomber." What does James Shin Hoo give her?

• A gift certificate to his restaurant for a year's worth of free meals.

• A crutch to help make walking easier.

• Paper innersoles to put into her shoes to make her feet stop hurting.

• A disposable diaper to use to clean.