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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, what does the narrator suggest the reader do instead of reading this book?
(a) Read the story backward.
(b) Read the book.
(c) Curl up with a dictionary.
(d) Skip ahead to chapter four.

2. According to Violet, which of their former guardians would have enjoyed eating salad?
(a) Count Olaf.
(b) Pomres.
(c) Aunt Josephine.
(d) Uncle Melvin.

3. According to the narrator, what does a nefarious disguise mean?
(a) A phrase that means ugly.
(b) A phrase that means he does not fool them one bit, no matter what he is wearing.
(c) A phrase that means the disguise is stylish and in.
(d) A phrase that means she does not fool them one bit, no matter what she is wearing.

4. As Sunny is getting undressed, what is the one word she says that casts a long shadow over the Baudelaires?
(a) Leave me alone.
(b) Olaf.
(c) Stop.
(d) Dog.

5. What happened to the Quagmire children?
(a) They ran away.
(b) They found guardians.
(c) They died in a fire.
(d) Count Olaf kidnapped them.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what does Mr. Poe always have?

2. What is the In Auction?

3. While climbing the staircase, Violet recalls what event that her parents attended that made them extremely tired?

4. Who shows up at the onset of Chapter 4 dressed in a disguise?

5. When Jerome and the children arrive back home from their dinner at Café Salmonella, what does the doorman tell them is now "in"?

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