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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 did Isadora and Duncan do as the first part of their plan?

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

3. Who enters the shack and tells the children how hard their tests will be?

4. What does Principal Nero say is hard about Sunny's papers?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is odd about the fact that Violet says "if we are lucky" as the narrator describes it in Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do the children do on their exams?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Emotions run high in the story.

1) Explain the emotions and the role that they play in the story.

2) In what way do the Baudelaire children and the Quagmire children mirror real life children emotionally given the situation. In what ways are they different?

Essay Topic 3

What purpose does the narrator achieve by continually warning the reader to put the book down and that the story doesn't end happily? Do you continue to hope for a happy ending despite this warning? Explain why or why not.

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