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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 Klaus say he is going to read up on?
2. What does Coach Genghis say is the reason for the present to Principal Nero?
3. Who does Carmelita deliver the message from?
4. What does Nero tell the children the shack that they are going to live in is made out of?
5. To tell the size what is it that the Biggest Lasagna Contest winner was compared to?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Coach Genghis and Principal Nero talk about on the way to the auditorium?
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. What does the narrator have to say about Carmelita Spats?
4. After having discussed Olaf and their plans to unmask him in Chapter 5 what do the children talk about?
5. Describe what is found once the children get into the shack in Chapter 3.
6. Describe the scene as the Baudelaire children are told to leave Nero's office in Chapter 2.
7. How is Principal Nero's sonata in Chapter 5 described?
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. What do the Quagmire and Baudelaire children talk about doing when they grow up in Chapter 4?
10. What background information is given to the reader in Chapter 1 regarding the relationship and past events between the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf?
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
What purpose does the narrator achieve by continually warning the reader to put the book down and that the story doesn't end happily? Do you continue to hope for a happy ending despite this warning? Explain why or why not.
Essay Topic 3
Do you pity the Baudelaire children? Explain your answer and why or why not.
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