PROGRESS CHECK

Question 1 of 6. #200

Why do we generally play 'second hand low' when declarer leads a low card from their hand or dummy? Pick the best answer from the following:

We want to save our high cards for beating high cards rather than low cards.

4th hand has an opportunity to play high.

Both of the other two answers apply.

Question 2 of 6. #201

As defender, playing second, why do we generally 'cover and honour with an honour' when declarer leads a high card from their hand or dummy.

It shows partner we have an honour card.

It can promote a winner in our hand or partner's hand.

We always play the highest card we can.

It's traditional.

Question 3 of 6. #198

We are defending against 10 tricks in Hearts. Partner has led the 4.

Dummy's diamonds are

Dummy plays 3. Our diamonds are

Which card should we play and why?

We play T as we don't need to play any higher to win the trick.

We play A hoping our partner will then ruff a diamond return.

We play A because third player plays high.

It doesn't matter what we play

Question 4 of 6. #202

Against a No Trumps contract our partner leads Q. Which of the following is the most likely?

Partner also has J and possibly 10

It's from a 5+ card suit.

It's a singleton.

Partner has a low spade and also either the A or K.

Question 5 of 6. #203

Against a No Trumps contract our partner leads the 3. Which of the following is most likely?

It's one of a small doubleton

It's from a suit with at least 4 cards and at least one honour.

It's a singleton.

The suit has no honour card.

Question 6 of 6. #204

Against a No Trumps contract our partner leads 4. We can see the 2 and 3 in our hand and in dummy. What do we know? (pick the single best answer)

Partner probably led from their longest suit.

Partner's longest suit contains no honour.

Partner probably also has a suit with a sequence of 3 honours.

Partner has exactly 4 cards in the suit led and the suit contains at least one honour.

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