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

2. What does Principal Nero say he only has time for?
(a) Taking care of the Baudelaire orphans
(b) The violin
(c) Looking after the computer
(d) Being a principal

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

4. What is NOT said that Count Olaf has done to the children?
(a) Nasty phone calls
(b) Atrocious cooking
(c) Hitting them
(d) Poison

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carmelita tell the children it is traditional to give a special messenger?

2. What has Nero instructed the children to do during gym time until the replacement gym teacher comes?

3. What does Carmelita Spats call the Baudelaire children?

4. What does Duncan tell Violet is the good news?

5. What does Klaus explain is their adversity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the words 'hee hee hee' to the reader as the Baudelaire children hear them in the end of Chapter 2?

2. What do the Quagmire and Baudelaire children talk about doing when they grow up in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

7. What do the Quagmire children tell the Baudelaire children that they will do in regards to Count Olaf in Chapter 5?

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

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

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

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