WorksheetsThe Westing Game - Name That Character
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Age: 57. Mother died at childbirth, raised by father (deceased). Education: 1 year of high school. Married at 16, divorced at 40. Ex- husband’s name: Windy Windkloppel. Hospital records: problems related to chronic alcoholism. Police record: 3 arrests for vagrancy. Gave up drinking when she took up religion. Started the Good Salvation Soup Kitchen on Skid Row. Works as cleaning woman in Sunset Towers, lives in maid’s apartment on fourth floor.
a)
Berthe Erica Crow
b)
Grace Wexler
c)
Sydelle Pulaski
d)
Flora Baumbach
2.
Age: 45. Podiatrist. Graduated from Marquette. Married 22 years, has two daughters . Bookie.
a)
Sam Westing
b)
Barney Northrup
c)
Jake Wexler
d)
James Shin Hoo
3.
Born with last name Windkloppel. Age: 42. Married to Jake. Claims to be an interior decorator. Spends most of her time in the Chinese restaurant or the beauty parlor. She and Jake have two daughters.
a)
Madame Hoo
b)
Grace Wexler
c)
Angela Wexler
d)
Mrs. Theodorakis
4.
Age: 20. Engaged to marry D. Denton Deere (also an heir). One year college (high grades). Victim of third bombing. Embroiders a lot.
a)
Turtle Wexler
b)
Sydelle Pulaski
c)
Angela Wexler
d)
Berthe Erica Crow
5.
Real name: Tabitha-Ruth Wexler. Age: 13. Junior-high- school student. Plays the stock market. Smart kid, but kicks people. Flora Baumbach calls her Alice.
a)
Flora Baumbach
b)
Grace Wexler
c)
Angela Wexler
d)
Turtle Wexler
6.
Age: 17. High- school senior. Works in family coffee shop. Wants to be a writer. Seems lonely; can’t find anyone to play chess with.
a)
Chris Theodorakis
b)
Theo Theodorakis
c)
Doug Hoo
d)
Otis Amber
7.
Age: 15. Younger brother of above. Confined to wheelchair; disease struck about four years ago. Knows a lot about birds.
a)
Otis Amber
b)
Doug Hoo
c)
Theo Theodorakis
d)
Chris Theodorakis
8.
Age: 65. Born: Edinburgh, Scotland. Immigrated to Wisconsin, age 3. Education: eighth grade. Jobs: mill worker, union organizer, prizefighter, doorman. Married, six children, two grandchildren. Westing connection: Worked in Westing Paper plant 20 years. Fired by Sam Westing himself for trying to organize the workers. No pension.
a)
Barney Northrup
b)
Otis Amber
c)
Sandy McSouthers
d)
Jake Wexler
9.
Age: 25. Graduate of UW Medical School. First-year intern, plastic surgery. Parents live in Racine (not heirs). Westing connection: Engaged to Angela Wexler (see Wexlers), who looks like Sam Westing’s daughter, Violet, who was also engaged to be married, but to a politician not an intern.
a)
Otis Amber
b)
Dr. Wexler
c)
D Denton Deere
d)
George Theodorakis
10.
“I played with Sam Westing—chess. Hour after hour I sat staring down at that chessboard. He lectured me, he insulted me, and he won every game.”
a)
Turtle Wexler
b)
Rosalie Baumbach
c)
JJ Ford
d)
Angela Wexler
11.
Age: 50. Education: high school, one year secretarial school. Secretary to the president of Schultz Sausages. Is taking her first vacation in 25 years (six months’ saved-up time). Lived with widowed mother and two aunts until she moved to Sunset Towers. Walked with a crutch even before she broke her ankle in the second bombing. Now needs two crutches (she paints them!). Westing connection: ?
a)
Angela Wexler
b)
Grace Wexler
c)
Berthe Erica Crow
d)
Sydelle Pulaski
12.
Age: 62. Delivery boy. Fourth-grade dropout. IQ: 50. Lives in the basement of Green’s Grocery. A bachelor. No living relatives. Westing connection: Delivered letters from E. J. Plum, Attorney, both times.
a)
Barney Northrup
b)
Otis Amber
c)
Sandy McSouthers
d)
Julian R Eastman
13.
Maiden name: Flora Miller. Age: 60. Dressmaker. Husband left her years ago, sends no money. She had a disabled daughter, Rosalie. Sold bridal shop last year after Rosalie died of pneumonia, age 19. Spends most of her time at the stockbrokers. Westing connection: Made wedding gown for Violet Westing, which she never got to wear.
a)
Bertha Erica Crow
b)
Angela Wexler
c)
Grace Wexler
d)
Flora Baumbach
14.
Westing Connection: sued Sam Westing over the invention of the disposable paper diaper. Case never came to court (Westing disappeared). Settled with the company last year for $25,000. Thinks he was cheated. Latest invention: paper innersoles.
a)
EJ Plum
b)
James Hoo
c)
Jake Wexler
d)
Sandy McSouthers
15.
Age: 28. Born in China. Immigrated from Hong Kong two years ago. Gossip: was married her for her 100- year-old sauce.
a)
Mrs. Hoo
b)
Mr. Hoo
c)
Mrs. Wexler
d)
Crow
16.
Age: 18. High-school track star. Is competing in Saturday’s track meet against college milers.
a)
Theo Theodorakis
b)
Angela Wexler
c)
Doug Hoo
d)
Otis Amber
17.
Berthe Erica Crow? Sure I knew her. She and her pa lived in the upstairs flat. We were best friends, almost like sisters, but she was the pretty one with her beautiful complexion and long gold- red hair. She left school to marry a guy named Windkloppel. Haven’t seen or heard from her since. She’s not in any trouble, is she?
Transcript of a taped interview with Sybil Pulaski, November 12. This means....
a)
Crow's friend is an heir, too.
b)
Crow is not longer friends with this person.
c)
Sam Westing made a mistake.
d)
Crow is not an heir.
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