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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 the narrator say is the only reason a person shouldn't get a good night's sleep?
(a) They are being made to do S.O.R.E activities
(b) They have come to the good part in their book
(c) They are the Baudelaire children
(d) They hate doing well in school

2. What does Violet use the cream spinach for?
(a) Glue
(b) Keeping up her strength
(c) To kill the fungus on the ceiling
(d) Polishing the staples

3. What does Violet NOT take from the kitchen to make her invention?
(a) Small potato
(b) Plate
(c) Fork
(d) Creamed spinich

4. When does the narrator say he found energy he didn't know he had?
(a) When timmy was stuck in a well
(b) When his house was on fire
(c) When he was chasing his car down a hill
(d) When he was chased by an angry mob

5. What do the Quagmires need a string for?
(a) To prop the auditorium door open
(b) To floss with
(c) To pull the sack of flour
(d) As part of their disguises

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Duncan do to show he has had an idea?

2. What does Duncan say he will loan to Violet?

3. What is Mrs. Bass having Klaus do in class?

4. What meal do the Baudelaire children have to eat with their hands at lunch?

5. Where does the narrator say the woman was he approached at the masquerade ball?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the children's school work as a result of their S.O.R.E.?

2. Describe the topic of assumptions that the narrator speaks on in the beginning of Chapter 12.

3. What are the children sore from in the beginning of Chapter 8?

4. What plan do the Quagmires come up with?

5. What does the narrator explain that Coach Genghis has the Baudelaire children do every night?

6. What does Coach Genghis tell the children about the exercises the children are to do and orphan muscles.

7. What does Principal Nero tell the children about the exams?

8. In the end of Chapter 8 what does the narrator explain about the Baudelaires' desire to be lucky and how lucky they want to be?

9. Why do Klaus and Sunny not question Violet in Chapter 11 when she tells them she will need a crab for her invention?

10. What does the narrator explain the children should be nervous about at the end of Chapter 10?

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