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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. Poe say that there is at the school to keep Count Olaf away?

2. What is the punishment for being late for work or class?

3. What does Coach Genghis say has never happened despite the fact that he is the world's greatest gym teacher?

4. What has Nero instructed the children to do during gym time until the replacement gym teacher comes?

5. What is it that Klaus likes to do best?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Klaus not accuse Coach Genghis of being Count Olaf when Coach Genghis enters in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator say about the current state of the school and what happened to it after the Baudelaire children left?

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

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

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

10. What causes the children to lose their appetites in Chapter 6?

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

The Baudelaire and Quagmire children felt that they had no options left when they decided to switch shoes.

What other options had been left open to them? What had they not thought of? Did they try everything given what is known about the series?

Essay Topic 3

Mr. Remora and Mrs. Bass are two adults that aren't mean to the children but seem to be portrayed as less than intelligent.

What is the purpose of Mr. Remora and Mrs. Bass in the story?

What does it say about them that they are willing to stand up to Principal Nero only to the point that he offers to expel them?

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