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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. Why do the children not invent, think, or bite anything?

2. What does the luminous circle the children had painted get compared to?

3. What does Principal Nero tell the Baudelaire children when they enter his office?

4. What do the Baudelaires realize when they see the Quagmires' disguises?

5. What inventor does Violet say she thinks could help them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What plan do the Quagmires come up with?

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Do you pity the Baudelaire children? Explain your answer and why or why not.

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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