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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 does Mr. Poe say about the word 'cakesniffer'?

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

4. What does Klaus remember doing on the picnic?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the scene in Principal Nero's office where the children are trying to act like they are joking about Coach Genghis' outfit being a disguise.

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Does reading this book make you want to read the previous in the series? The rest in the series? Explain the reasoning. Does the narrator's explanation that the Baudelaires' story doesn't end well affect your desire to read the other books? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Why do the Quagmires insist on being called triplets even though their brother is dead, leaving only the two of them?

Is it more appropriate to call them twins than triplets? Explain your answers.

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