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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 is Mrs. Bass obsessed with?
2. How long do the violin recitals that Principal Nero gives each night last?
3. What does Mr. Remora constantly eat?
4. What is Principal Nero's tie decorated with?
5. What book is Klaus thinking about that he has just read as he walks up towards the school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the children explain to Principal Nero is the reason that they have come to see him?
2. What background information is given to the reader in Chapter 1 regarding the relationship and past events between the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf?
3. What happens when Sunny runs out of staples?
4. What do the Quagmire and Baudelaire children talk about doing when they grow up in Chapter 4?
5. What does Mr. Poe tell the children as they walk up to the Prufrock Preparatory School?
6. Explain the narrator's discussion about triptychs and the one he has and the one he would make to signify the Baudelaire children.
7. What is described about the Baudelaires past in the beginning of Chapter 2?
8. After having discussed Olaf and their plans to unmask him in Chapter 5 what do the children talk about?
9. How is Principal Nero's sonata in Chapter 5 described?
10. What does the narrator say about the current state of the school and what happened to it after the Baudelaire children left?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look at the behavior of Principal Nero.
1) Why does he insist on mocking the children?
2) Why does he raise their hopes about the dormitory before telling them they will live in the shack?
3) Why did he laugh at the children before they left?
Essay Topic 2
The series is considered dark and in some places has been banned for its morbid humor and negative view of adults.
Is this book appropriate for readers age 3rd to 4th grade? Why?
Essay Topic 3
1) Is there any foreshadowing in the book that takes place without the narrator pointing it out?
2) Is the narrator's commentary helpful to the reader?
3) Is the narrator's commentary given primary for the younger reader to inform or for a entertainment value? Explain.
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