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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 is the name of Count Olaf's play?
(a) Stealing a Fortune
(b) Getting Away with Murder
(c) Doing Away with the Orphans
(d) The Marvelous Marriage

2. What do the children have to play with?
(a) Sticks
(b) Rocks
(c) Pots and pans
(d) Fancy toys

3. What does Violet suggest she can do to help with Count Olaf's play?
(a) Be the prop master
(b) Play music
(c) Build the set
(d) Play a member of the audience

4. What did the children buy for dessert for Count Olaf and the troupe?
(a) Cake
(b) Pudding
(c) Ice Cream
(d) Pie

5. Why does Mr. Poe explain the children will be going to live with Count Olaf?
(a) Their parents mentioned him in the will
(b) He is the only relative to be found
(c) He is the closest relative geographically
(d) Count Olaf has asked for the children

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Mr. Poe explain the meaning of to the children although they already know it?

2. What does Mr. Poe's son complain about in relation to Sunny?

3. What does Sunny enjoy doing?

4. What is noticed about the figure approaching the children before it gets to them?

5. What does Olaf say he has become since he has adopted the children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the response of Violet and Klaus when they are told they will be leaving the Poe household?

2. What is Count Olaf's reaction upon learning they are not having roast beef?

3. What does a normal day entail for the children at Count Olaf's house as described early on in Chapter 3?

4. What is Edgar and Albert's response when Mr. Poe tells the Baudelaire children that they are leaving the next day?

5. Describe the scene after Olaf and his troupe leave the house to go to their performance.

6. In Chapter 3 after Klaus and Violet think about their parents what does Klaus suddenly begin yelling?

7. Describe how the story of the Baudelaire children is introduced.

8. What is the children's response in Chapter 1 when they hear that their parents have just died?

9. Describe the people that come into Count Olaf's house to have dinner.

10. At the beginning of Chapter 5 what are the children's moods when they wake up the next morning?

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