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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dinner was described as what?
(a) Green
(b) Blue
(c) Moldy
(d) Lumpy

2. Everything about the children's new home seems what?
(a) Interesting
(b) Cheerful
(c) Unpleasant
(d) Normal

3. The foreman first calls the children what?
(a) New recruits
(b) Midgets
(c) Scaliwags
(d) Dwarves

4. When Violet, Klaus and Sunny open the gate to the lumbermill, they find what?
(a) A kitten
(b) A box
(c) A puppy
(d) A memo

5. The children sit down to share what first meal with the workers?
(a) Breakfast
(b) Dessert
(c) Lunch
(d) Dinner

6. The girls finally decide to wait for Klaus where?
(a) In front of the doctor's office
(b) In the courtyard
(c) In the library
(d) In their beds

7. At the end of the chapter, as they prepare for their meeting, the children begin to wonder what kind of a man who is?
(a) Their guardian
(b) The Foreman
(c) Mr. Poe
(d) Phil

8. Klaus falls asleep without taking off what clothing?
(a) His gloves
(b) His ring
(c) His hat
(d) His shoes

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

10. Completely mystified by his behavior, Violet and Sunny follow their brother where?
(a) Into the library
(b) Into the bathroom
(c) Into Sir's study
(d) Into the dormitory

11. What are the children given to eat while at work?
(a) Cookies
(b) Candy
(c) Potato chips
(d) Gum

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

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

14. Where will the children be sleeping, when they aren't at work?
(a) A dormitory
(b) A closet
(c) A basement
(d) An attic

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tries to comfort the girls, while they wait for Klaus?

2. The children are traveling by what method of transportation, as the book opens?

3. For some reason, days have worn by without a single sighting of whom?

4. There is a drawing of what on one of the walls where the children will be staying?

5. The first day of work is called what?

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