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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. What would the children rather look at than anything else when they first arrive at Prufrock Preparatory School?
(a) Their feet
(b) The playing children
(c) Mr. Poe
(d) The dark moss

2. What is Mrs. Bass obsessed with?
(a) Metric system
(b) Fractions
(c) Her hair
(d) Rulers

3. What word do the children use to describe the small animals in the shack?
(a) Territorial
(b) Hateful
(c) Scary
(d) Grumpy

4. Who saves the Baudelaires from Carmelita Spats in the cafeteria?
(a) The metal masked cafeteria ladies
(b) Count Olaf
(c) The Quagmire triplets
(d) Nero

5. Where had Sunny and her siblings been placed in the past that prepared her to an extent for the hard work she was to do as Principal Nero's secretary?
(a) Chain gang
(b) Lucky Smells Lumbermill
(c) Count Olaf's house
(d) Lousy Lane

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Bass NOT have the children measure?

2. What does Isadora offer to give Carmelita after the message has been delivered?

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

4. What does Principal Nero say he only has time for?

5. What does Violet say she can invent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the words 'hee hee hee' to the reader as the Baudelaire children hear them in the end of Chapter 2?

2. Describe what Violet is thinking about in Chapter 1 as they are walking towards the school for the first time.

3. What does the narrator have to say about Carmelita Spats?

4. What happens when Sunny runs out of staples?

5. What do the children do when Coach Genghis walks into the office and says that he might really be Count Olaf in disguise?

6. What does Nero tell the children while describing the shack they will be living in?

7. What is the description of the Prufrock Prep that is given in Chapter 1 as the children and Mr. Poe look up at it?

8. Describe the scene in Principal Nero's office where the children are trying to act like they are joking about Coach Genghis' outfit being a disguise.

9. What does Mr. Poe tell the children as they walk up to the Prufrock Preparatory School?

10. What is the explanation that the narrator gives the expression "Mountain out of a Molehill" in Chapter 3?

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