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

3. What must be done to the pieces of timber on the first day?
(a) Sanding
(b) Painting
(c) Cutting into even lengths
(d) Debarking

4. What obscures the guardian's face?
(a) Smoke
(b) A mask
(c) A newspaper
(d) A curtain

5. Where does Klaus finally lay down?
(a) Phil's bunk
(b) The top bunk
(c) The floor
(d) The bottom bunk

6. Who is Charles?
(a) The banker
(b) A mill worker
(c) The man the children meet on the way to see the guardian
(d) The foreman

7. Why can't the children sleep, initially?
(a) They are preparing to run away
(b) They are lost in thought
(c) One of them is missing
(d) They are made to work through the night

8. What is Phil's attitude toward Klaus' strange disappearance and behavior upon returning?
(a) Confused
(b) Slightly concerned
(c) Pessimistic
(d) Optimistic

9. For some reason, days have worn by without a single sighting of whom?
(a) The Count
(b) Mr. Poe
(c) The Foreman
(d) Phil

10. Why did the previous foreman quit?
(a) It's a mystery
(b) He decided to move to someplace sunny and warm
(c) He had an accident
(d) There was a death in his family

11. What is pictured on the cover of Advanced Ocular Science?
(a) The mark of Sir
(b) The mark of the Foreman
(c) The mark of Mr. Poe
(d) The mark of the Count

12. Which of the following is the last name of the children featured in the story?
(a) Baudelaire
(b) Caudelaire
(c) Faudelaire
(d) Daudelaire

13. Which of the following is not a book found in the library?
(a) The Paltryville Constitution
(b) The History of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill
(c) The Building of the Bank
(d) Advanced Ocular Science

14. Where is the doctor's office?
(a) In the mill's basement
(b) Above the bank
(c) Behind the post office
(d) In the building shaped like an eye

15. Who removes the clothing that Klaus leaves on when he falls asleep?
(a) Charles
(b) Phil
(c) Violet
(d) Sunny