Free The Bad Beginning Quiz

1)

What does Sunny do when Count Olaf picks her up? (from Chapter 4)

Giggles

Hits him with a spoon

Bites him

Cries

2)

Where does Justice Strauss say the Baudelaire children will go to live now? (from Chapter 13)

With Mr. Poe

With her

With a different guardian

In an orphanage

3)

Where does Klaus say he would rather take his chances than with Count Olaf? (from Chapter 5)

In the streets

At an orphanage

A foster home

With cannibals

4)

What do the children think the pot of bubbling sauce looks like after they have been so frightened by Count Olaf and his friends? (from Chapter 4)

Oil

Vomit

Mud

Blood

5)

What do the children do to figuratively escape Count Olaf's home? (from Chapter 5)

Go to Justice Strauss' house

Sleep

Read

Daydream

6)

What does the narrator explain is an 'incentive' to lawyers to read law books? (from Chapter 7)

Respect

Money

Knowledge

Job security

7)

What does Justice Strauss say that Count Olaf will go to jail for? (from Chapter 13)

Trying to steal the Baudelaire fortune

Mistreating the children

Hitting Klaus

Dangling an infant out a window

8)

Who whispers into Violet's ear just before she turns the lights on? (from Chapter 13)

The hook-handed man

The white faced ladies

Count Olaf

Klaus

9)

What does Sunny say that gives Klaus and Violet an idea of what to do to learn about Olaf's plans? (from Chapter 6)

Call

Run

Follow

Books

10)

What does Violet say she would want to buy if she could use her family's money? (from Chapter 5)

Someone to chop the wood for her

Crib for Sunny

Inventing studio

Library

11)

What type of knot does Violet use to tie the strips of cloth together? (from Chapter 10)

Poop Knot

Butterfly Knot

Slip Knot

Devil's Tongue

12)

Who comes to get Klaus and calls him home? (from Chapter 7)

Hook-handed man

The bald man

The white faced women

Count Olaf

13)

What does Violet suggest they go to Justice Strauss' house for? (from Chapter 5)

Help

Books

For a place to sleep

To ask her to adopt them

14)

What does Violet do that causes her to begin thinking as she walks down the stairs with Olaf to the play? (from Chapter 11)

Stops herself from falling with her right hand

Puts her hair back

Holds Klaus' hand with her left hand

Sneezes and catches it with her right hand

15)

What does Violet wish that she had bought at the market to put in Olaf's food? (from Chapter 4)

Roast Beef

Ex-lax

A bus ticket

Poison

16)

What does Count Olaf demand to have before the children start their chores? (from Chapter 9)

The law book

A nap

Lunch

Their shoes

17)

Klaus says that Count Olaf's plan wouldn't work if he and Violet were what? (from Chapter 11)

Polygamists

Muslim

Methodists

Nudists

18)

What does Klaus rip a paper into pieces for while he reads? (from Chapter 8)

To chew

To try and stay awake

Bookmarks

To keep his hands busy

19)

What does Mr. Poe tell the children before they go onstage? (from Chapter 12)

Don't be nervous

Break a leg

Have fun

They look great

20)

What is seen driving away into the night that may or may not have contained Count Olaf? (from Chapter 13)

A hearse

A long black car

A little red car

A horse and buggy

21)

What does Klaus say he wished he knew more about and wants to get a book on? (from Chapter 6)

How to grow tomatoes

Divorcing your parent/guardian

Adoption law

Inheritance law

22)

What does Count Olaf compare the children to? (from Chapter 9)

Stubborn mule

Lame horse

Stubborn pig

Stray dog

23)

What does Violet suggest that Count Olaf might be trying to prove in order to get at the children's money? (from Chapter 7)

That he is worthy of the vast fortune

That the family owed him money

That they are insane

That they are sick

24)

What does Klaus see Violet do that he hadn't seen her do in a long time? (from Chapter 9)

Begin drawing an invention

Cross her arms

Tie up her hair

Whistle

25)

What does Count Olaf say that the theater troupe and himself should do in order to enjoy their meal? (from Chapter 4)

Get drunk

Have the children cook something else

Order out

Throw it out

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