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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 Sunny biting while the children listen to Principal Nero's sonata?

2. What does Principal Nero say that they will do if need be in order to get the children a proper education?

3. Who does Carmelita deliver the message from?

4. What is Mrs. Bass obsessed with?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Principal Nero tell the children about his life and being principal?

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator have to say about Carmelita Spats?

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

8. What does Mr. Poe tell the children as they walk up to the Prufrock Preparatory School?

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

10. What do the Quagmire children tell the Baudelaire children that they will do in regards to Count Olaf in Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The children feel that running away is not an option. Given the people that are watching over the children and the fact that they continually fall into Count Olaf's plans would it have been wrong for them to run away? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Emotions run high in the story.

1) Explain the emotions and the role that they play in the story.

2) In what way do the Baudelaire children and the Quagmire children mirror real life children emotionally given the situation. In what ways are they different?

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