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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are the employees paid?
(a) With playing cards
(b) With food
(c) With wood
(d) With coupons

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

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

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

5. How often will the children see the foreman?
(a) Once a week
(b) Daily
(c) Once a month
(d) Every other day

Short Answer Questions

1. When Violet tells Klaus that he should go to bed, what is Klaus' response?

2. What obscures the guardian's face?

3. What is the foreman's name?

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

5. Vice President in Charge of Coins is a title belonging to whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how one of the children uses their own natural talent on the first day of work.

2. Describe the town of Paltryville.

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

4. How do Violet and Sunny feel about Phil's response to Klaus' disappearance, in chapter 6?

5. Describe the routine at the mill and how it affects the children.

6. Do you think it was right for Mr. Poe to leave the children alone at the station in Paltryville? Why or why not?

7. What opinion do the children have about Count Olaf, in chapter 5, and do you agree with it?

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

9. Who is Charles and how might he be helpful tot he children?

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

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