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

2. What do the Quagmire triplets share with the Baudelaires?
(a) Food
(b) Cups
(c) Silverware
(d) Paper

3. What is the punishment for being late for meals?
(a) Must eat off the floor
(b) Loss of cups
(c) Loss of food
(d) Must eat with the dogs

4. What does Coach Genghis tell Principal Nero that orphans have?
(a) Excellent bone structure
(b) Fine muscle tone
(c) Strong character
(d) A will to survive

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the children have to eat with their hands when they went on a picnic with their parents and forgot the silverware?

2. What does Principal Nero say he only has time for?

3. What does Coach Genghis tell Principal Nero is the main reason he wanted to come to work at Prufrock Prep?

4. What is the reason that Coach Genghis is wearing high top sneakers?

5. What does Principal Nero say is the punishment for going to the administrative building?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator have to say about Carmelita Spats?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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