The Austere Academy | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. Who does the narrator say is the hero of the story?

The Baudelaire children

2. What reason does Count Olaf torment the Baudelaire children?

Their money

3. What is NOT said that Count Olaf has done to the children?

Hitting them

4. What does Carmelita Spats call the Baudelaire children?

Cakesniffers

5. What is coming out from between the brick sidewalk the Baudelaire children are standing on?

Dark moss

6. What would the children rather look at than anything else when they first arrive at Prufrock Preparatory School?

The dark moss

7. What is the only thing the Baudelaire children can count on from Mr. Poe?

That he will be coughing

8. What does Klaus do in order to comfort Violet as they are walking in the Prufrock Preparatory School?

Puts a hand on her shoulder

9. What is it that Klaus likes to do...
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