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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. How many questions do the Baudelaire children have to miss before they flunk?

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

3. Why does Isadora suggest that the helicopter never arrived to take the Baudelaire children away?

4. What does Klaus tell Coach Genghis that Coach Genghis is, making Klaus feel queasy?

5. What are the Quagmires missing on their tray?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Principal Nero tell the children about the exams?

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

3. What happens to the children's school work as a result of their S.O.R.E.?

4. What does Coach Genghis tell the children about the exercises the children are to do and orphan muscles.

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

6. What do the children see at the end of Chapter 11 that makes them realize something is wrong with the Quagmires?

7. What are the children sore from in the beginning of Chapter 8?

8. What plan do the Quagmires come up with?

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

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

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

1) Is there any foreshadowing in the book that takes place without the narrator pointing it out?

2) Is the narrator's commentary helpful to the reader?

3) Is the narrator's commentary given primary for the younger reader to inform or for a entertainment value? Explain.

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