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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 Sunny say she can do?
2. What is one of Sunny's favorite things to do?
3. What does Isadora offer to give Carmelita after the message has been delivered?
4. What is Mrs. Bass obsessed with?
5. What does Klaus say the school motto translates to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the children do when Coach Genghis walks into the office and says that he might really be Count Olaf in disguise?
2. What background information is given to the reader in Chapter 1 regarding the relationship and past events between the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf?
3. Describe the story of Violet and Klaus going to the fair when their uncle entered a pig into the contest.
4. What does Nero tell the children in Chapter 2 about the dormitory that they have at Prufrock Prep?
5. What do the Quagmire children tell the Baudelaire children that they will do in regards to Count Olaf in Chapter 5?
6. What do Coach Genghis and Principal Nero talk about on the way to the auditorium?
7. Explain the narrator's discussion about triptychs and the one he has and the one he would make to signify the Baudelaire children.
8. What do the Quagmire and Baudelaire children talk about doing when they grow up in Chapter 4?
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 does the narrator describe the words 'hee hee hee' to the reader as the Baudelaire children hear them in the end of Chapter 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Look at the behavior of Principal Nero.
1) Why does he insist on mocking the children?
2) Why does he raise their hopes about the dormitory before telling them they will live in the shack?
3) Why did he laugh at the children before they left?
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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