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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. Why does Klaus say the Leeches probably won't show up?
(a) The hurricane scared them away
(b) Leeches sleep at night
(c) They are moving too fast
(d) Bananas don't smell very strong

2. What does Captain Sham say Josephine jumping out the window would have been?
(a) Quickest way for her to go
(b) Sensible thing
(c) Easiest option
(d) Most fortunate

3. How do the children free the sailboat from the dock before the creature gets to them?
(a) Klaus had kept a letter opener
(b) Violet had a pair of scissors on her
(c) Sunny bites it
(d) The rope broke free

4. What does Violet take with her to the restaurant?
(a) Her telephone invention
(b) Peppermints
(c) Gears from the toy trains
(d) Sunny's rattle

5. What wakes up Count Olaf's accomplice?
(a) The gate opening
(b) Thunder
(c) The children talking
(d) The door closing

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the creature on the docks doing as the Baudelaires sail away.

2. What does Captain Sham say Aunt Josephine is going to be joining?

3. What does Josephine say she will help the children do after she catches her breath?

4. What do Klaus and Violet tell Mr. Poe that they have to go do?

5. Why does Violet say she and Sunny didn't take a baking soda bath?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in which the children look in the window of Captain Sham's sailboat rentals.

2. Describe the Baudelaires' journey to the Fickle Ferry in Chapter 9.

3. Describe the scene when the Baudelaire children first arrive back at Josephine's house in the beginning of Chapter 8.

4. What does Aunt Josephine say when Captain Sham say he is going to thrown her overboard?

5. What does Klaus do in Chapter 8 when he enters the library room?

6. What is the realization that the children come to after talking with Aunt Josephine in the cave in Chapter 10?

7. What does Josephine's library look like when Klaus enters in Chapter 8?

8. What does Josephine tell the children had happened to her when she decided to run away?

9. In the end of Chapter 11 what does the author mean by the phrase 'mixed blessing'?

10. Describe the invention that Violet makes in Chapter 11 and what it does.

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