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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) Run around as fast as they can
(c) Look busy
(d) Hop up and down

2. What does Principal Nero say when the Baudelaires knock on his office door?
(a) No autographs till after the show
(b) Come in if you must
(c) Be dead or dying
(d) Enter, welcome, come on it

3. What does Principal Nero say the classroom numbers are for Violet and Klaus?
(a) Room one and room two
(b) Room A and room B
(c) The first and last rooms
(d) Room 10 and Room 20

4. What does Nero tell the children the shack that they are going to live in is made out of?
(a) Clay and dirt
(b) Wood
(c) Tin
(d) Bricks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say in regards to the Quagmire triplets helping the Baudelaires?

2. What does Principal Nero say that they will do if need be in order to get the children a proper education?

3. What does Mr. Remora constantly eat?

4. Who does Principal Nero say that Duncan Quagmire is?

5. What does Isadora's poem say would be a stroke of luck?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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