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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. Where does Violet get the piece of yarn to tie around the bag of flour?

2. What does Violet pull out of Sunny's hair?

3. What are the children doing the next day after having run all night long?

4. What does Klaus say he hope hasn't dulled Violet's inventing skills?

5. What had the Quagmires done in order to try and make sure the Baudelaires are safe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Klaus and Sunny not question Violet in Chapter 11 when she tells them she will need a crab for her invention?

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

3. What does the narrator explain that Coach Genghis has the Baudelaire children do every night?

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

5. Describe the symbol that the luminous circle begins to take on.

6. How tired are the Baudelaire children as described in Chapter 8?

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

8. Describe the topic of assumptions that the narrator speaks on in the beginning of Chapter 12.

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

10. What starts the fight between Klaus and Isadora?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The children know that Count Olaf always has one or more of his accomplices around to help them.

1) Should the children have known that the two lunch ladies were friends of Count Olaf's? Explain.

2) Why were the lunch ladies able to avoid suspicion when Coach Genghis was not?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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.

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