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

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

3. What does Klaus explain is their adversity?
(a) The death of their parents
(b) Count Olaf
(c) The police
(d) Mr. Poe

4. What is the Principal's sonata said to have sounded like he was trying to imitate?
(a) A helpless donkey being bitten by leeches
(b) Someone beating up a cat
(c) The city sounds
(d) Birds and trees

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Violet going to have to miss that day?

2. In class what does Carmelita whisper in Violet's ear when she pokes her and causes Violet to loose her concentration?

3. What does Coach Genghis say has never happened despite the fact that he is the world's greatest gym teacher?

4. What does Klaus laugh about realizing as they are walking to the administration building?

5. What does Principal Nero say the classroom numbers are for Violet and Klaus?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain the narrator's discussion about triptychs and the one he has and the one he would make to signify the Baudelaire children.

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

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

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

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

9. What is described about the Baudelaires past in the beginning of Chapter 2?

10. 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?

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