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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Count Olaf tell the children about the fruit in their bowls?
(a) They get stuck in your teeth
(b) They were picked fresh
(c) They make wonderful pies
(d) It was his favorite when he was young

2. What does Count Olaf tell the children to do if they want another bed?
(a) Build one
(b) Use their own money to go get it
(c) Go sleep in the shed
(d) Find one in the trash

3. What does Sunny sleep on at Count Olaf's?
(a) Dirty clothes
(b) A pile of curtains
(c) A used crib
(d) A worn mattress

4. What does Sunny do when Count Olaf picks her up?
(a) Hits him with a spoon
(b) Bites him
(c) Cries
(d) Giggles

5. What does Violet suggest she can do to help with Count Olaf's play?
(a) Be the prop master
(b) Play a member of the audience
(c) Play music
(d) Build the set

6. What kind of pictures does the book that Sunny chooses have?
(a) Teeth
(b) Toys
(c) A bed
(d) Candy

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

8. What do the children see on Count Olaf?
(a) Eye tattoo on his wrist
(b) House tattoo on his neck
(c) A hairy mole
(d) Eye tattoo on his ankle

9. What does the theater troupe do when they are ready to have dinner?
(a) Begin stomping their feet
(b) Hit their cups with their knives
(c) Yelling for food
(d) Begin pounding on the table

10. What does Count Olaf say he can barely stand to do?
(a) Look at the children
(b) Touch the children
(c) Talk to the children
(d) Have them in his house

11. Who does Klaus suggest could adopt them?
(a) Violet
(b) Justice Strauss
(c) Mr. Poe
(d) Their grandmother

12. What does Count Olaf call the Baudelaire children?
(a) Orphans
(b) Wretches
(c) Urchins
(d) Children

13. What is in the corner of Strauss' personal library that doesn't contain books?
(a) Television
(b) Chairs
(c) Ladder to reach books with
(d) A filing cabinet to easily find a book

14. How long does Mr. Poe say the children have to wait to be able to use their family's money?
(a) Sunny comes of age
(b) Violet gets out of college
(c) Violet comes of age
(d) The children all have turned 21

15. What reason does Mr. Poe give to explain Count Olaf's busy schedule?
(a) He is a traveling salesman
(b) He just got out of jail
(c) He does charity work
(d) He is an actor

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Count Olaf tell the children that he wants them to do in order to feel more at home with him?

2. What reason does Olaf give the children for asking Justice Strauss to play the judge in his play?

3. What do the children have to play with?

4. Where does Mr. Poe tell the children they can contact him?

5. What do the children say that they have been unable to find in Count Olaf's home?

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