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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only thing the Baudelaire children can count on from Mr. Poe?
(a) That he should be a jar of mustard
(b) That he will be coughing
(c) That he will repremand the children for being rude
(d) That he will complicate matters

2. What does Principal Nero say he only has time for?
(a) Taking care of the Baudelaire orphans
(b) The violin
(c) Being a principal
(d) Looking after the computer

3. What do the children find the shack is infested with?
(a) Mice
(b) Moles
(c) Fleas
(d) Crabs

4. What does Duncan tell Violet is the good news?
(a) They can follow Olaf around until that night
(b) The will have silverware for lunch
(c) They can sneak out before dinner and miss Olaf's meeting
(d) They have all day to figure out Olaf's plan

5. What does Klaus laugh about realizing as they are walking to the administration building?
(a) They will have to eat their meals with their hands
(b) They will have to buy Nero candy
(c) They will have to have their hands tied behind their backs
(d) Count Olaf's turban makes him look like a woman

6. What does Klaus remember doing on the picnic?
(a) Swinging from a low limb
(b) Catching turtles
(c) Picking blackberries
(d) Looking for arrowheads

7. What reason does Count Olaf torment the Baudelaire children?
(a) Revenge
(b) Their money
(c) He hates kids
(d) He is insane

8. What is Violet going to have to miss that day?
(a) Dinner
(b) Lunch
(c) Class
(d) Violin recital

9. How long do the violin recitals that Principal Nero gives each night last?
(a) Until he is finished
(b) Three hours
(c) Eight hours
(d) Six hours

10. To tell the size what is it that the Biggest Lasagna Contest winner was compared to?
(a) Computer
(b) Large mattress
(c) Small car
(d) Camping tent

11. What does Isadora's poem say would be a stroke of luck?
(a) If Count Olaf's disguise were suddenly unstuck
(b) If Coach Genghis, by lightening, were struck
(c) If Coach Genghis were hit by a truck
(d) If Coach Genghis were stuck in the muck

12. What does Coach Genghis say has never happened despite the fact that he is the world's greatest gym teacher?
(a) A parade in his honor
(b) A school with his teachers as central learning
(c) He has never gotten a raise
(d) A book devoted to his methods

13. What does Sunny tell her siblings to be on the lookout for?
(a) Count Olaf's assistants
(b) Count Olaf's lawyer
(c) Count Olaf sneaking around
(d) Count Olaf's knife

14. What does the narrator say happens whenever he looks at the paintings entitled "What Happened to Beatrice"?
(a) She shivers
(b) He becomes frightened
(c) He feels less alone
(d) He cries

15. Who does Carmelita deliver the message from?
(a) Mrs. Bass
(b) Principal Nero
(c) Mr. Remora
(d) Coach Genghis

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say in regards to the Quagmire triplets helping the Baudelaires?

2. What did the Quagmires' parent leave behind for them?

3. What is Sunny's size compared to?

4. What does Principal Nero say Sunny will be doing at Prufrock Prep?

5. What does Coach Genghis tell Principal Nero that orphans have?

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