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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 Mr. Remora constantly eat?

2. What is Sunny's size compared to?

3. What do the Quagmires tell the Baudelaires that they are going to do?

4. What does Mrs. Bass NOT have the children measure?

5. What do the Quagmire triplets share with the Baudelaires?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Carmelita Spats tell the Baudelaire children in the cafeteria in Chapter 6?

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

6. Describe the food being served in the cafeteria.

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

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

9. What does Nero tell the children in Chapter 2 about the dormitory that they have at Prufrock Prep?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the theme change from the beginning of the story to the end of the story? Are the Baudelaire children better off in the beginning of the story or the end of the story and in what way?

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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