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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 Carmelita tell the children it is traditional to give a special messenger?
(a) A message back to the other person
(b) A smile
(c) A thank you
(d) A tip

2. What does Sunny say she can do?
(a) Scrape the paint off the walls
(b) Bite the crabs
(c) Order new beds at her secratary job
(d) Bite the bales of hay until they are soft

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

4. What is Sunny's size compared to?
(a) Loaf of bread
(b) Toy doll
(c) A buffalo
(d) Bag of groceries

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What options do the children NOT think of when wondering what they will have to eat with their hands for breakfast?

3. What is the punishment for being late for work or class?

4. What does Klaus explain is their adversity?

5. Who walks into the shack surprising the children?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say about the current state of the school and what happened to it after the Baudelaire children left?

2. How is Principal Nero's sonata in Chapter 5 described?

3. Describe the food being served in the cafeteria.

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

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

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

7. What is the description of the Prufrock Prep that is given in Chapter 1 as the children and Mr. Poe look up at it?

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

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

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

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