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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mr. Poe works where?
(a) Hospital
(b) Hotel
(c) Lumbermill
(d) Bank

2. How do the employees of the mill look at life?
(a) They have an attitude of discontent
(b) They are happy all the time
(c) They are content
(d) They are optimistic that things will change

3. How do the children handle the news that they will be working?
(a) They agree to make the best of it
(b) They complain
(c) They run away
(d) They telephone Poe for help

4. If the new guardian doesn't work out, where will the children live?
(a) Boarding school
(b) Poe's basement
(c) Jail
(d) A halfway house

5. There is a drawing of what on one of the walls where the children will be staying?
(a) A door
(b) A window
(c) The moon
(d) The sun

Short Answer Questions

1. the general consensus about the foreman is that he is what type of man?

2. When Violet, Klaus and Sunny open the gate to the lumbermill, they find what?

3. How often will the children see the foreman?

4. Which is the name of the only male child in the family?

5. Vice President in Charge of Coins is a title belonging to whom?

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