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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What body parts do Sunny use to work that the other children do not use?
2. the foreman wakes everyone by banging two what together?
3. How do the children handle the news that they will be working?
4. Who tries to comfort the girls, while they wait for Klaus?
5. The children find out that there will be no breakfast because they have to do what?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Mr. Poe's relationship with the children.
2. How is foreshadowing used in chapter two?
3. Describe the exchange between Violet and Klaus when Klaus returns to the dormitory after being at the eye doctor's office.
4. Describe the library and how the children feel about it.
5. Describe how one of the children uses their own natural talent on the first day of work.
6. Explain the symbolism of the dormitory window.
7. Describe the major change in the plot line, in chapter 6.
8. What do you think about the girls staring at the drawing of a window, while waiting for Klaus?
9. Describe the first day of work for the children.
10. Describe the town of Paltryville.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose one of the following characters and write a detailed profile of what they look like and how they act throughout the book. Be sure to use several specific parts of the story to support your descriptions.
Dr. Orwell
Charles
Phil
Essay Topic 2
Paltryville, and especially the mill, are, as the book title suggests, miserable.
Part 1: How do you feel that the miserable surroundings influenced the attitudes of the children?
Part 2: Did the surroundings seem to affect other characters and, if so, in what ways?
Essay Topic 3
Mr. Poe abandoned the children in Paltryville at the start of the book, though he did return in the end and rescue them from being handed over tot he Count.
Part 1: Do you feel that Mr. Poe's actions at the end of the book made up for his actions in the beginning? Why or why not?
Part 2: What do you feel would have happened in a real town in the present day if someone left three children to fend for themselves like Mr. Poe did?
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