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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Violet thinking of inventing a machine to do while they are on the beach?
(a) Fetch the rocks she is skipping
(b) Make it always cloudy
(c) Create a perfect day
(d) Help you swim

2. What does Justice Strauss say she hopes the children will do soon?
(a) Come to have tea with her
(b) Come to do a dance with her
(c) Come over to help her garden
(d) Come over to borrow books

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

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

5. What does Count Olaf ask for when he enters the kitchen?
(a) Roast Beef
(b) Chicken Tetrazzini
(c) Smoked Salmon
(d) Pasta

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

7. What is noticed about the figure approaching the children before it gets to them?
(a) It is carrying a package
(b) It is tall and lean
(c) It is tall and square
(d) It limps

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

9. What does Olaf say he has become since he has adopted the children?
(a) Their master
(b) Their lord
(c) Their worst nightmare
(d) Their father

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

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

12. What does Violet suggest they go to Justice Strauss' house for?
(a) Books
(b) Help
(c) To ask her to adopt them
(d) For a place to sleep

13. What fruit has been put with their breakfast that Count Olaf has served?
(a) Blueberries
(b) Tomatoes
(c) Raspberries
(d) Blackberries

14. 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) Kind Sir
(c) Father
(d) Mr. Count Olaf, Lord and Master

15. What does Justice Strauss do that immediately puts Violet at ease?
(a) Hugs Violet
(b) Touches Violet's hair
(c) Holds Violet's hand
(d) Laughs

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing that Violet says she knows how to cook?

2. What does Count Olaf tell the children about the fruit in their bowls?

3. What does Violet suggest she can do to help with Count Olaf's play?

4. What kind of dish do the children decide on for Count Olaf and his troop?

5. What does the man with hook hands say that you must teach children?

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