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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 is the name of the clothing store the taxi cab passes?

2. What happens during dinner?

3. Who is on their way to the children since Aunt Josephine is dead?

4. What does Josephine say that Violet is for answering the door?

5. How do the Baudelaire children and Aunt Josephine get to town in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr.Poe tell the children in Chapter 1 as he puts them in the taxi cab?

2. Describe Josephine's house as the children first see it in Chapter 1.

3. What do the children do after Aunt Josephine sends them to their room in Chapter 4?

4. In the beginning of Chapter 4 what is the conversation that takes place around the dinner table?

5. What does Aunt Josephine correct on Captain Sham's business card?

6. What disguise is Count Olaf wearing when the children meet him in the store in Chapter 3?

7. What does the narrator explain at the end of Chapter 5 in relation to the children crying?

8. What is said in Chapter 6 when Klaus says the note has been forged?

9. What does the letter say that the children find on the door from Aunt Josephine?

10. What does the narrator explain in Chapter 1 about the children and the adventure that they are about to have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What is the difference between the adults in the story and the children?

2) Does the difference between the adults and the children make it easier for children to relate to? Explain.

3) Why were the adults unable to see through Count Olaf's disguise?

Essay Topic 2

The author gives the reader many instances of foreshadowing in the story.

1) Give examples of foreshadowing that happen in the book and what it accomplishes.

2) Why does the author choose to reveal these pieces of information?

3) What other way could the author have given the information?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the creature that was Count Olaf's accomplice.

1) Why did this creature never speak?

2) Why aren't the accomplices given names?

3) What does it say about Count Olaf that he has such loyal accomplices for his foul endeavors?

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