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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Klaus say he would like a book on?
(a) Trains
(b) Wolves
(c) Archery
(d) Sea creatures

2. Where do the Baudelaire children decide the map of the city that Count Olaf had talked about must be?
(a) There never was one
(b) His tower
(c) With Count Olaf
(d) In Count Olaf's bedroom

3. Where does Klaus say he would rather take his chances than with Count Olaf?
(a) With cannibals
(b) A foster home
(c) In the streets
(d) At an orphanage

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

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

6. What does Violet say she would want to buy if she could use her family's money?
(a) Library
(b) Inventing studio
(c) Someone to chop the wood for her
(d) Crib for Sunny

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

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

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

10. What is carved on Count Olaf's front door?
(a) The actor's theme
(b) A portrait of Count Olaf
(c) Count Olaf's name
(d) An eye

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

12. What does Mr. Poe's son complain about in relation to Sunny?
(a) She cries a lot
(b) She soils her diaper all the time
(c) She bites
(d) She hits people

13. What does Klaus wear that makes him look smart?
(a) Top hat
(b) A metal
(c) Sweater vest
(d) Glasses

14. What does Violet do just before she gets ready to start thinking of an invention?
(a) Exercises
(b) Puts on her glasses
(c) Pulls her hair back
(d) Starts chewing on her nails

15. Klaus is able to tell the difference between which two animals?
(a) Leapard and cheetah
(b) Alligator and crocodile
(c) Lion and tiger
(d) Black leapord and spotted leapord

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Violet suggest the children could do in return for using Strauss' library?

2. Why does Mr. Poe explain the children will be going to live with Count Olaf?

3. What is Violet thinking of inventing a machine to do while they are on the beach?

4. What do the children have to play with?

5. What does Count Olaf blame his past 'standoffish' behavior on?

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