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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 Violet NOT take from the kitchen to make her invention?

2. What is the difference in the stories Klaus would read at home and the ones he was reading in the orphan shack?

3. What does the narrator say he went to a masquerade ball as?

4. What color is the cover on the book that Mrs. Bass asks about the measurements on?

5. Who is missing from the lunch room?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the end of Chapter 8 what does the narrator explain about the Baudelaires' desire to be lucky and how lucky they want to be?

2. What do the Baudelaire children do in the shack to get ready for the exams?

3. Describe the reaction that the Baudelaire children have when they look at the Quagmires in their disguises.

4. What does Coach Genghis tell the children to do when they meet him after dinner in Chapter 7?

5. What starts the fight between Klaus and Isadora?

6. What is odd about the fact that Violet says "if we are lucky" as the narrator describes it in Chapter 8?

7. Describe how the shack has changed as it is described in the beginning of Chapter 10.

8. Describe the plan that the Quagmires have put into action in order to help the Baudelaire children.

9. What do Isadora and Duncan tell the Baudelaires they have been looking for in old newspapers?

10. What does the narrator explain the children should be nervous about at the end of Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There is a lot of narcissism in regards to Coach Genghis and Principal Nero.

1) At what point does a person's self worth go from healthy to narcissism?

2) Is it better for a person to have low self esteem or be narcissistic? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

There are children in the story and adults.

1) What role do the adults play in the story?

2) What role do the children play?

3) Are the adults only made out to look stupid and incompetent? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

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

Why did he suddenly stop?

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