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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 does Coach Genghis tell Principal Nero that orphans have?
2. What do the Quagmires tell the Baudelaires that they are going to do?
3. What do the children decide to go and ask Principal Nero first thing in the morning?
4. What is Principal Nero's tie decorated with?
5. Who saves the Baudelaires from Carmelita Spats in the cafeteria?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Principal Nero tell the children about his life and being principal?
2. What does Mr. Poe tell the children as they walk up to the Prufrock Preparatory School?
3. Describe what Violet is thinking about in Chapter 1 as they are walking towards the school for the first time.
4. What do the Quagmire children tell the Baudelaire children that they will do in regards to Count Olaf in Chapter 5?
5. What background information is given to the reader in Chapter 1 regarding the relationship and past events between the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf?
6. What does Carmelita Spats tell the Baudelaire children in the cafeteria in Chapter 6?
7. What is the explanation that the narrator gives the expression "Mountain out of a Molehill" in Chapter 3?
8. 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?
9. Explain the narrator's discussion about triptychs and the one he has and the one he would make to signify the Baudelaire children.
10. What does Nero tell the children while describing the shack they will be living in?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
There is a lot of narcissism in regards to Coach Genghis and Principal Nero.
1) At what point does a person's self worth go from healthy to narcissism?
2) Is it better for a person to have low self esteem or be narcissistic? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Mr. Remora and Mrs. Bass are two adults that aren't mean to the children but seem to be portrayed as less than intelligent.
What is the purpose of Mr. Remora and Mrs. Bass in the story?
What does it say about them that they are willing to stand up to Principal Nero only to the point that he offers to expel them?
Essay Topic 3
The children know that Count Olaf always has one or more of his accomplices around to help them.
1) Should the children have known that the two lunch ladies were friends of Count Olaf's? Explain.
2) Why were the lunch ladies able to avoid suspicion when Coach Genghis was not?
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