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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 is the Principal's sonata said to have sounded like he was trying to imitate?

2. What is the only thing the Baudelaire children can count on from Mr. Poe?

3. What is the punishment for being late for meals?

4. Who baked the biggest lasagna that Violet and Klaus ever saw?

5. What does Principal Nero tell the children is the only thing under his nose?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Explain the narrator's discussion about triptychs and the one he has and the one he would make to signify the Baudelaire children.

4. What do the children do when Coach Genghis walks into the office and says that he might really be Count Olaf in disguise?

5. Describe the food being served in the cafeteria.

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speculate on the reason that the narrator began telling the story of Beatrice in the middle of the story.

Why did he suddenly stop?

Essay Topic 2

The series is considered dark and in some places has been banned for its morbid humor and negative view of adults.

Is this book appropriate for readers age 3rd to 4th grade? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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

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