View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who must the children meet with, after they eat?
(a) Mr. Poe
(b) Charles
(c) Phil
(d) The guardian

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

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

4. What body parts do Sunny use to work that the other children do not use?
(a) Earlobes
(b) Fingernails
(c) Toenails
(d) Teeth

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The children begin to rationalize that, even though their work is hard, it is much better than having to do what?

2. Where did the books in the library come from?

3. The children find out that there will be no breakfast because they have to do what?

4. Where will the children be sleeping, when they aren't at work?

5. After dinner, the employees go where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the significance of the building shaped like an eye.

2. Describe Foreman Flacutono.

3. What might the guardian's reasons for wanting the children to work in the mill until Violet comes of age be?

4. How does the eye come into play again in chapter 5?

5. Why are the workers incapable of having anything other than gum for lunch?

6. Describe the reception the children receive when they first get to the lumbermill.

7. Describe the major change in the plot line, in chapter 6.

8. What is the food situation like at the mill? What does it mean to the children and the other workers?

9. What is the guardian of the children described as being like up to the end of chapter 4?

10. What do you think about the girls staring at the drawing of a window, while waiting for Klaus?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,008 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample