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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Mr. Squalor, what is his wife most attentive to?
(a) What's happening in the building.
(b) What's in and what's out.
(c) What's going on down the street.
(d) What's out.

2. What does Esme Squalor do for a living?
(a) She is the most important school teacher.
(b) She is the sixth most important financial advisor.
(c) She is the number one most important financial advisor.
(d) She is the tenth most important financial advisor.

3. When the Baudelaire children reach the Squalor penthouse apartment, who answers the door?
(a) Mrs. Squalor.
(b) Mr. Poe.
(c) Count Olaf.
(d) Mr. Squalor.

4. Why does Mrs. Squalor want to adopt the children?
(a) Because she loves kids.
(b) Because orphans are in.
(c) Because her husband suggested it.
(d) Because she feels bad for them.

5. What does the narrator suggest the reader do to understand how the Baudelaire orphans feel climbing the staircase without light?
(a) Flip the book over.
(b) Close their eyes as they read the chapter.
(c) Turn out the lights and read.
(d) Rip the pages out.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can the orphans hear from behind the doors on each floor?

2. According to Mr. Squalor, who did he hike up Mount Fraught with?

3. What does Violet hope the new guardians will have for her when she gets to the apartment?

4. Who had been the Baudelaire orphans' first guardian?

5. According to Mr. Squalor, what is one thing the children can do to save breath?

(see the answer key)

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