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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 does Justice Strauss suggest that Sunny do while Violet and Klaus go through the law books?

2. What does Klaus say was unique about the Macbeth play that was put according to the law book he had been reading?

3. What does Violet use to make a bandage for the wound inflicted by the grappling hook's failed attempt?

4. What does Klaus tell Justice Strauss to make sure Sunny doesn't eat?

5. What reason does Violet give for not being able to marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Count Olaf says and Violet thinks when he is asking her if it would be so bad being married to him in Chapter 8?

2. What does Klaus do as the hook-handed man leaves the library to fetch Violet and Sunny in Chapter 7?

3. Describe the scene seen by the children at the beginning of Chapter 12 while they are standing back stage of the play.

4. Describe the scene where Violet is walking down the stairs to do the play, The Marvelous Marriage, in Chapter 11.

5. What is described as the difference between the reasons that the Baudelaire children read the books and the reasons that lawyers read law books in Chapter 7?

6. What are the costumes that Klaus and Violet are put into for 'The Marvelous Marriage'?

7. Describe what makes Violet's plan risky and dangerous.

8. Describe the play as Klaus recounts it in chapter twelve while he is watching Count Olaf's performance.

9. While Violet and Klaus are trying to think of a way to get out of the tower in Chapter 11 what things do they discuss but don't offer any help?

10. What does the hook-handed man tell Klaus in Chapter 7 that frightens Klaus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What is significant about Mr. Poe's coughing fits? What feeling or thought is the author trying to impart to the reader by giving Mr. Poe these coughing fits?

2) What does it further say about Mr. Poe when the children go to see him at the bank?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the feeling that the children have once they are put into Count Olaf's home. How is this reflected in the room they are forced to share? Explain your reasoning.

Essay Topic 3

Is there anything that the children could have done to befriend Count Olaf?

Would he have been set on killing the children no matter what? Why?

Could Violet have offered him money and bought her and her siblings freedom?

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