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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 does Violet use the cream spinach for?
(a) Polishing the staples
(b) Keeping up her strength
(c) Glue
(d) To kill the fungus on the ceiling

2. What does Duncan do to show he has had an idea?
(a) Whistle
(b) Snap his fingers
(c) Gasp
(d) Stand up

3. What invention does Violet say she thinks she can come up with?
(a) Something to help her pass her test
(b) Something to unmask Count Olaf
(c) Something to make staples
(d) Something to get ride of the pink hearts on the wall

4. What is the difference in the stories Klaus would read at home and the ones he was reading in the orphan shack?
(a) He was able to quit at home
(b) The books at home had pictures
(c) They were never so boring at home
(d) They didn't count for a grade at home

5. What does the narrator say is the only reason a person shouldn't get a good night's sleep?
(a) They are the Baudelaire children
(b) They have come to the good part in their book
(c) They hate doing well in school
(d) They are being made to do S.O.R.E activities

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Isadora and Duncan do as the first part of their plan?

2. What do the Quagmires say they will do in order to help the Baudelaire children?

3. What does Violet pull out of Sunny's hair?

4. What do the Quagmires need a string for?

5. What are the children doing the next day after having run all night long?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the plan that the Quagmires have put into action in order to help the Baudelaire children.

2. What plan do the Quagmires come up with?

3. How tired are the Baudelaire children as described in Chapter 8?

4. What does Coach Genghis tell the children about the exercises the children are to do and orphan muscles.

5. In Chapter 11 in what way are the children reminded of being at home?

6. What are the children sore from in the beginning of Chapter 8?

7. What do the Baudelaire children do in the shack to get ready for the exams?

8. What is odd about the fact that Violet says "if we are lucky" as the narrator describes it in Chapter 8?

9. What does the narrator explain the children should be nervous about at the end of Chapter 10?

10. What does Principal Nero tell the children about the exams?

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