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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the punishment for being late to a violin recital?
(a) Feed Nero chocolate pudding
(b) Buy Nero a bag of candy and watch him eat it
(c) Sleep outside
(d) Massage Nero's feet

3. 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 stuck in the muck
(d) If Coach Genghis were hit by a truck

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

5. What does Mr. Poe say the buildings look like?
(a) Toes
(b) Noses
(c) Thumbs
(d) Tall places in which classes take place

6. What is the punishment for being late for work or class?
(a) Hands tied behind your back
(b) Feet tied together
(c) Must go with a muzzle on all day
(d) Loss of shoes

7. Who baked the biggest lasagna that Violet and Klaus ever saw?
(a) A girl scout troup
(b) A women's bridge club
(c) Circus performers
(d) Eleven nuns

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

9. Where do the children find a fungus growing in the shack?
(a) Wall
(b) Floor
(c) Ceiling
(d) On the hay bales

10. What is one of Sunny's favorite things to do?
(a) Eat
(b) Bite things
(c) Hit people
(d) Take naps

11. What is Principal Nero's tie decorated with?
(a) Cats
(b) Stripes
(c) Snails
(d) Violins

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

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

14. What was the thing the lasagna in the cafeteria was compared to to relate the size of it?
(a) Dance floor
(b) A double decker bus
(c) Their shack
(d) An elephant's butt

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Principal Nero say is the punishment for going to the administrative building?

2. What of Mrs. Bass' features makes her look like a gorilla?

3. What do the children decide to go and ask Principal Nero first thing in the morning?

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

5. Why does Coach Genghis say that he can't take off his shoes?

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