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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What word does Mr. Poe explain the meaning of to the children although they already know it?
(a) Engulfed
(b) Perish
(c) Destroyed
(d) Died

4. What do the children think the pot of bubbling sauce looks like after they have been so frightened by Count Olaf and his friends?
(a) Vomit
(b) Blood
(c) Oil
(d) Mud

5. Who knocks on the front door while Violet and Klaus are trying to figure out what to have for dinner?
(a) Justice Strauss
(b) The hook-handed man
(c) Mrs. Poe
(d) Mr. Poe

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

7. Who did the Baudelaire children have to share a room with in the Poe house?
(a) Mr. Poe's dogs
(b) Mr. Poe's pet snake
(c) Mr. Poe's mother
(d) Mr. Poe's two sons

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

9. Who does Violet say they should go see?
(a) Mr. Poe
(b) Justice Strauss
(c) The family lawyer
(d) Mrs. Poe

10. What does Justice Strauss tell Violet they can come help her do sometime?
(a) Shop
(b) Garden
(c) Clean
(d) Cook

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

12. What does Klaus tell Mr. Poe that Count Olaf is?
(a) A child abuser
(b) A lunatic
(c) A mad man
(d) A horrid person

13. On the notes that Count Olaf leaves the children what does he put at the bottom instead of his name?
(a) An eye
(b) An X
(c) Master Olaf
(d) Uncle Olaf

14. What is the only thing that Violet says she knows how to cook?
(a) Toast
(b) Cereal
(c) Oatmeal
(d) Eggs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children see on the wall when they step into Count Olaf's house?

2. What is Justice Strauss holding when she first meets the Baudelaire children?

3. What does Violet begin to do when she sees the figure walking towards them on the beach?

4. Where do the Baudelaire children decide the map of the city that Count Olaf had talked about must be?

5. When the story begins where are the Baudelaire children?

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