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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Klaus suggest they could come over?
(a) Next week
(b) Tomorrow
(c) Today
(d) That weekend

3. What does Mr. Poe do that keeps him from hearing Violet explain that Klaus has been struck by Count Olaf?
(a) Talks at the same time she does
(b) Coughs
(c) Sneezes
(d) Answers a phone

4. What do the children realize Count Olaf isn't wearing?
(a) Dentures
(b) Shirt
(c) Underwear
(d) Socks

5. Where did the children first meet Mr. Poe?
(a) Birthday party
(b) Church
(c) Company picnic
(d) Dinner party

6. What do the children do to figuratively escape Count Olaf's home?
(a) Read
(b) Sleep
(c) Go to Justice Strauss' house
(d) Daydream

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

8. What do the children put their clothes in at Count Olaf's house?
(a) A refrigerator box
(b) A chair
(c) A broken dresser
(d) A laundry basket

9. What does Olaf say he is doing when the theater troupe arrives?
(a) Hugging the children
(b) Punishing the orphans
(c) Getting the food
(d) Finding plates

10. What does Violet call Count Olaf while trying to keep him from getting mad when she tries to refuse to take part in the play?
(a) Master
(b) Mr. Count Olaf, Lord and Master
(c) Kind Sir
(d) Father

11. What does the man with hook hands say that you must teach children?
(a) Learn respect
(b) Listen to the parents
(c) Obey their elders
(d) Cook

12. What does Klaus think of being destroyed in the fire?
(a) All his things
(b) His mother and father
(c) The books he hasn't yet read
(d) His bed

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

14. What does Violet do when she is thinking about inventions?
(a) Puts on her glasses
(b) Chews on her bottom lip
(c) Sucks her thumb
(d) Ties her hair up

15. What does Violet begin to do when she sees the figure walking towards them on the beach?
(a) Throws a rock
(b) Yells for the police
(c) Runs
(d) Hides

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children see on Count Olaf?

2. Who knocks on the front door while Violet and Klaus are trying to figure out what to have for dinner?

3. What does Violet suggest they go to Justice Strauss' house for?

4. What reason does Mr. Poe give to explain Count Olaf's busy schedule?

5. What does Justice Strauss say that her case in the High Court was about?

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