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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 Nero say the children have to have in order to live in the dormitory?

2. What does Coach Genghis give to Nero?

3. What does Principal Nero say the classroom numbers are for Violet and Klaus?

4. What would the children rather look at than anything else when they first arrive at Prufrock Preparatory School?

5. Who does Carmelita deliver the message from?

Short Essay Questions

1. After having discussed Olaf and their plans to unmask him in Chapter 5 what do the children talk about?

2. 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?

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

4. Describe the food being served in the cafeteria.

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

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

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

8. What do the children explain to Principal Nero is the reason that they have come to see him?

9. What do Coach Genghis and Principal Nero talk about on the way to the auditorium?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Carmelita Spats' character. Compare her to Count Olaf. In what ways are they similar? In what ways are the different? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Coach Genghis, also known as Count Olaf, and Principal Nero appear to have a lot in common.

1) Is it possible that Principal Nero would have been willing to help Count Olaf? Explain.

2) Did Count Olaf perchance honestly like Principal Nero or was he simply using him? Explain your answer.

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