View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carmelita tell the children they owe her?

2. What are the Quagmires missing on their tray?

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

4. What do the students have to do at gym time?

5. What horrible things does the author NOT say can happen to celery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan do the Quagmires come up with?

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

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

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

5. Describe how the day goes while the Baudelaire children are waiting for their meeting with Coach Genghis.

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

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

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

9. What starts the fight between Klaus and Isadora?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

The children feel that running away is not an option. Given the people that are watching over the children and the fact that they continually fall into Count Olaf's plans would it have been wrong for them to run away? Explain your answer.

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.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 935 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample