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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. Where does Violet get the piece of yarn to tie around the bag of flour?
(a) Found it laying on the floor
(b) Klaus' shirt
(c) Duncan's sweater
(d) Principal Nero's coat

2. What is the difference in the stories Klaus would read at home and the ones he was reading in the orphan shack?
(a) He was able to quit at home
(b) They were never so boring at home
(c) The books at home had pictures
(d) They didn't count for a grade at home

3. Who is missing from the lunch room?
(a) Coach Genghis
(b) Carmelita Spats
(c) The lunch ladies
(d) The Quagmires

4. What is Klaus' job while Violet begins the staple-making process?
(a) To go see how the Quagmires are doing
(b) To take a quick nap
(c) Study the Quagmires' notebooks
(d) To do the laundry

5. What meal do the Baudelaire children have to eat with their hands at lunch?
(a) Lasagna
(b) Spaghetti
(c) Tuna cassarole
(d) Taco salad

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say the children should have been nervous about?

2. What does Principal Nero say he has never gotten to do before?

3. When does the narrator say he found energy he didn't know he had?

4. Who do the teachers say they should expel?

5. What does Principal Nero tell the Baudelaire children when they enter his office?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. Describe the reaction that the Baudelaire children have when they look at the Quagmires in their disguises.

6. What is odd about the fact that Violet says "if we are lucky" as the narrator describes it in Chapter 8?

7. Describe the plan that the Quagmires have put into action in order to help the Baudelaire children.

8. What do Isadora and Duncan tell the Baudelaires they have been looking for in old newspapers?

9. Describe the symbol that the luminous circle begins to take on.

10. What do the children see at the end of Chapter 11 that makes them realize something is wrong with the Quagmires?

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