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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The foreman demands that Violet and Sunny pick up what he drops, while Klaus does what?
(a) Does sit ups
(b) Does push ups
(c) Gets dressed
(d) Makes beds

3. Where does Charles take the children, after they finish their snack?
(a) To Sir's office
(b) Back to work
(c) To the bank
(d) To the library

4. After dinner, the employees go where?
(a) To a meeting with the foreman
(b) To a bar
(c) To work
(d) To bed

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

6. 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

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

8. The children try to prevent Klaus being taken to what?
(a) A park
(b) A lake
(c) A mountain
(d) A building

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

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

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

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

13. 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

14. How many books does the library have?
(a) 3,000
(b) 30
(c) 3
(d) 300

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the children given to eat while at work?

2. Who is escorting the children, as the book opens?

3. Who trips Klaus?

4. The girls spend several minutes staring at what, before realizing it is only a drawing?

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

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