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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 do the Quagmires say they will do in order to help the Baudelaire children?

2. What is Violet thinking about while sitting in class?

3. Who do the teachers say they should expel?

4. How many nights of S.O.R.E do the children take part in?

5. What does Principal Nero say proves that Coach Genghis isn't Count Olaf?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How do the children do on their exams?

6. What plan do the Quagmires come up with?

7. In Chapter 11 in what way are the children reminded of being at home?

8. What starts the fight between Klaus and Isadora?

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

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

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

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 3

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?

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