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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason that Coach Genghis is wearing high top sneakers?
(a) To hide a scar left on him by Sunny's bitting
(b) To keep the marks left by Klaus hidden
(c) Because his ankles are weak
(d) To conceal his eye tattoo on his ankle

2. What does Principal Nero say when the Baudelaires knock on his office door?
(a) Come in if you must
(b) No autographs till after the show
(c) Be dead or dying
(d) Enter, welcome, come on it

3. What does the narrator say that Mrs. Bass was arrested for?
(a) Bank robbery
(b) Stealing a car to measure
(c) Cheating on a math test
(d) Shoplifting

4. Who surprises the children while they are talking to Principal Nero about Count Olaf's disguises?
(a) Coach Genghis
(b) Mrs. Bass
(c) Mr. Remora
(d) Carmelita Spats

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

6. What is it that Klaus likes to do best?
(a) Hike
(b) Swim
(c) Sing
(d) Read

7. What is Principal Nero's nose compared to?
(a) Hook
(b) Potatoe
(c) Plum
(d) Cherry tomato

8. What does Klaus do in order to comfort Violet as they are walking in the Prufrock Preparatory School?
(a) Leans his head towards hers
(b) Whistles
(c) Puts a hand on her shoulder
(d) Gives her a big hug

9. What does Nero tell the children the shack that they are going to live in is made out of?
(a) Wood
(b) Clay and dirt
(c) Bricks
(d) Tin

10. What does Violet do that confuses her brother and sister?
(a) Begins to cough uncontrollably
(b) Hugs Coach Genghis
(c) Speak in Pig Latin
(d) Greets Coach Genghis

11. Who does Principal Nero say that Duncan Quagmire is?
(a) A liar
(b) A thief
(c) Violet's boyfriend
(d) Carmelita Spats' best friend

12. Why does Coach Genghis say that he can't take off his shoes?
(a) It would be rude to take them off in Nero's office
(b) His ankle hurts
(c) His feet stink
(d) The shoes are melted to the skin

13. What do the Quagmires tell the Baudelaire children on their first Friday at the school?
(a) Saturday and Sunday are regular school days
(b) Saturday and Sunday they have to clean the entire school
(c) Satruday and Sunday the students have to work in the garden
(d) Saturday and Sunday are fasting days

14. Who saves the Baudelaires from Carmelita Spats in the cafeteria?
(a) The metal masked cafeteria ladies
(b) Count Olaf
(c) Nero
(d) The Quagmire triplets

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do the violin recitals that Principal Nero gives each night last?

2. What is it said that the title of the architect that designed Prufrock Prep should have been called?

3. What did Sunny do on the picnic at the lake with their parents?

4. What does Violet say she can invent?

5. What is the Principal's sonata said to have sounded like he was trying to imitate?

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