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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the children ask their guardian's name, what does Poe tell them?
(a) The name is unpronouncable
(b) Philip
(c) John
(d) Billy

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

4. Why doesn't Charles hear the children protesting Klaus leaving?
(a) The mill machinery is too loud
(b) The Foreman is yelling over the sound of the children
(c) There is a loud crash outside the mill
(d) The telephone rings

5. The girls spend several minutes staring at what, before realizing it is only a drawing?
(a) The moon
(b) A door
(c) The sun
(d) A window

6. The children have been lulled into a state of complacency by the absence of whom?
(a) Klaus
(b) Mr. Poe
(c) Their parents
(d) The Count

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

8. Who offers to take Klaus to see Dr. Orwell?
(a) Phil
(b) Charles
(c) The guardian
(d) The Foreman

9. Charles offers to help the children by giving them access to what?
(a) The basement
(b) The library
(c) The attic
(d) The kitchen

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

11. Who is escorting the children, as the book opens?
(a) Mr. Panders
(b) Mr. Penny
(c) Mr. Pue
(d) Mr. Poe

12. What breaks when Klaus falls?
(a) Klaus' glasses
(b) Klaus' nose
(c) Klaus' leg
(d) Klaus' arm

13. The children bump into a man, on the way to their meeting, who is described as what?
(a) Short
(b) Tall
(c) Thin
(d) Fat

14. The guardian tells the children that they must work in the mill until who comes of age?
(a) Sunny
(b) Klaus
(c) Charles
(d) Violet

15. How long ago did the previous foreman quit?
(a) Four years
(b) One year
(c) Two years
(d) Three years

Short Answer Questions

1. The girls finally decide to wait for Klaus where?

2. Why can't the children sleep, initially?

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

4. How do the children handle the news that they will be working?

5. The children are to stay at a Lumbermill called what?

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