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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 options do the children NOT think of when wondering what they will have to eat with their hands for breakfast?
(a) Fried eggs
(b) Noodles
(c) Oatmeal
(d) Soup

2. What are Violet, Klaus and Sunny forced to eat without any silverware?
(a) Biscuits and gravy
(b) Oatmeal
(c) Scrambled eggs
(d) Breakfast burritos

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

4. What would the children rather look at than anything else when they first arrive at Prufrock Preparatory School?
(a) The dark moss
(b) Mr. Poe
(c) The playing children
(d) Their feet

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is coming out from between the brick sidewalk the Baudelaire children are standing on?

2. Why does Coach Genghis say he can't take off his turban?

3. What does the narrator explain about Prufrock Preparatory School in its current state?

4. What does Principal Nero tell the children is the only thing under his nose?

5. What does Coach Genghis say is the reason for the present to Principal Nero?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Principal Nero tell the children about his life and being principal?

3. What background information is given to the reader in Chapter 1 regarding the relationship and past events between the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf?

4. What is the explanation that the narrator gives the expression "Mountain out of a Molehill" in Chapter 3?

5. Describe the story of Violet and Klaus going to the fair when their uncle entered a pig into the contest.

6. Describe what is found once the children get into the shack in Chapter 3.

7. What does Carmelita Spats tell the Baudelaire children in the cafeteria in Chapter 6?

8. What is said about the picnic the children went on with their parents as they recall it in Chapter 6?

9. Describe the food being served in the cafeteria.

10. After having discussed Olaf and their plans to unmask him in Chapter 5 what do the children talk about?

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