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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 is the color of the walls in the shack?

2. What is coming out from between the brick sidewalk the Baudelaire children are standing on?

3. In class what does Carmelita whisper in Violet's ear when she pokes her and causes Violet to loose her concentration?

4. What is Mrs. Bass obsessed with?

5. What is Sunny's size compared to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the narrator's discussion about triptychs and the one he has and the one he would make to signify the Baudelaire children.

2. Describe what Violet is thinking about in Chapter 1 as they are walking towards the school for the first time.

3. What does Nero tell the children while describing the shack they will be living in?

4. 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?

5. Describe Violet's class in room one with Mr. Remora.

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

7. How is Principal Nero's sonata in Chapter 5 described?

8. What is the explanation that the narrator gives the expression "Mountain out of a Molehill" in Chapter 3?

9. Describe the scene in Principal Nero's office where the children are trying to act like they are joking about Coach Genghis' outfit being a disguise.

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

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

1) Is there any foreshadowing in the book that takes place without the narrator pointing it out?

2) Is the narrator's commentary helpful to the reader?

3) Is the narrator's commentary given primary for the younger reader to inform or for a entertainment value? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Do you pity the Baudelaire children? Explain your answer and why or why not.

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