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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Nero instructed the children to do during gym time until the replacement gym teacher comes?
(a) Stay out of the way
(b) Look busy
(c) Hop up and down
(d) Run around as fast as they can

2. What does the narrator say in regards to the Quagmire triplets helping the Baudelaires?
(a) They will certainly die
(b) They will regret it
(c) There will be a price to pay
(d) They will be force to join the navy

3. Who walks into the shack surprising the children?
(a) Mr. Remora
(b) Mr. Poe
(c) Principal Nero
(d) Mrs. Bass

4. What does Isadora offer to give Carmelita after the message has been delivered?
(a) A fist biscuit and knuckle sandwich
(b) Oatmeal in the face
(c) Scrambled eggs on the head
(d) Juice down the front of her dress

5. What is the punishment for being late for meals?
(a) Loss of food
(b) Loss of cups
(c) Must eat off the floor
(d) Must eat with the dogs

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Principal Nero's tie decorated with?

2. What does Mr. Poe say the buildings look like?

3. What is Principal Nero's nose compared to?

4. What is one of Sunny's favorite things to do?

5. What do the Quagmires tell the Baudelaires that they are going to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Violet's class in room one with Mr. Remora.

2. Describe the scene as the Baudelaire children are told to leave Nero's office in Chapter 2.

3. What do Coach Genghis and Principal Nero talk about on the way to the auditorium?

4. What do the children do when Coach Genghis walks into the office and says that he might really be Count Olaf in disguise?

5. What does the narrator say about the school motto and the effect that it has as the children walk into the school at the end of Chapter 1?

6. Why does Klaus not accuse Coach Genghis of being Count Olaf when Coach Genghis enters in Chapter 6?

7. Describe what Violet is thinking about in Chapter 1 as they are walking towards the school for the first time.

8. What does Mr. Poe tell the children as they walk up to the Prufrock Preparatory School?

9. What do the children explain to Principal Nero is the reason that they have come to see him?

10. What does Nero tell the children in Chapter 2 about the dormitory that they have at Prufrock Prep?

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