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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Count Olaf torment the Baudelaire children?

2. What does Klaus do in order to comfort Violet as they are walking in the Prufrock Preparatory School?

3. What does Klaus laugh about realizing as they are walking to the administration building?

4. What do the children find the shack is infested with?

5. Why does Coach Genghis say he can't take off his turban?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What happens when Sunny runs out of staples?

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

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

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

10. What background information is given to the reader in Chapter 1 regarding the relationship and past events between the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does reading this book make you want to read the previous in the series? The rest in the series? Explain the reasoning. Does the narrator's explanation that the Baudelaires' story doesn't end well affect your desire to read the other books? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Why do the Quagmires insist on being called triplets even though their brother is dead, leaving only the two of them?

Is it more appropriate to call them twins than triplets? Explain your answers.

Essay Topic 3

Speculate on the reason that the narrator began telling the story of Beatrice in the middle of the story.

Why did he suddenly stop?

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