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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Count Olaf tell the children to do before they step inside?
(a) Take off their shoes
(b) Wipe their feet
(c) Take off their coats
(d) Watch the steps

2. What does Klaus explain it is that makes the figure look frightening?
(a) The hat it is wearing
(b) Lack of light
(c) Her imagination
(d) Mist

3. What is Justice Strauss holding when she first meets the Baudelaire children?
(a) Pie
(b) Flower pot
(c) Loaf of bread
(d) Bag of manure

4. Where does Mr. Poe tell the children they can contact him?
(a) With a phone
(b) Through Count Olaf
(c) The bank
(d) His house

5. Why was Mr. Poe not home very much?
(a) Taking his sons to ball games
(b) Dr. appointments
(c) Working
(d) Out golfing

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the beach when it is sunny and nice?

2. What does Sunny do while Violet and Klaus are packing their clothes?

3. How is the trolley described that the children are allowed to take to the beach?

4. What does Violet do just before she gets ready to start thinking of an invention?

5. What is noticed about the figure approaching the children before it gets to them?

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