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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hook-handed man threaten to do if there is any 'monkey business'?
(a) Put them out with the garbage
(b) Monkey around with them
(c) Give them the hook
(d) Dangle them out the window also

2. What is it that makes Violet try the grappling hook even after she has been injured?
(a) Her parents
(b) The thought of marrying Olaf
(c) The thought of Sunny alone and scared
(d) The promise she made to her parents

3. What does the narrator explain is an 'incentive' to lawyers to read law books?
(a) Money
(b) Knowledge
(c) Respect
(d) Job security

4. What does Klaus tell Justice Strauss to make sure Sunny doesn't eat?
(a) Marbles
(b) Weeds
(c) Bugs
(d) Dirt

5. What does Violet claim she wants to do as the reason she wants to visit Sunny?
(a) Giver her some medicine
(b) Bring her blankets
(c) Sing her a lullaby
(d) Rock her to sleep

6. What does Count Olaf say is a reason that he wouldn't want to marry Violet?
(a) Count Olaf can have any number of pretty women
(b) Count Olaf is too old for Violet
(c) Count Olaf is already married
(d) Violet is below his station

7. What does Violet see still laying on the ground untouched when they follow Count Olaf outside?
(a) Violet and Klaus' chore list
(b) The potatoes that Klaus and Violet had peeled
(c) The wood they had chopped
(d) Sunny's chew toys

8. What image wakes Klaus up when he begins to have trouble focusing on the book?
(a) His parents dying
(b) Count Olaf hiting him
(c) The white faced ladies
(d) The hooks from the hook-handed man

9. What do Violet and Klaus tell Justice Strauss to do during the play to make it more fun?
(a) To suddenly fall and pretend to faint
(b) To sing the lines
(c) Change her lines around on stage
(d) To interupt the wedding and announce her love for the groom

10. What does Violet do that causes her to begin thinking as she walks down the stairs with Olaf to the play?
(a) Sneezes and catches it with her right hand
(b) Stops herself from falling with her right hand
(c) Holds Klaus' hand with her left hand
(d) Puts her hair back

11. Who does Count Olaf find waiting for him at the breakfast table the next morning?
(a) Klaus
(b) Sunny
(c) Violet
(d) Justice Strauss

12. What does Count Olaf do to Violet while talking to her?
(a) Slaps her
(b) Spits on her
(c) Holds her chin
(d) Strokes her hair

13. What reason is explained to Klaus for the reason that Klaus has been allowed to live?
(a) Justice Strauss has been watching
(b) Count Olaf doesn't yet have his money
(c) Count Olaf is curious about Klaus
(d) Mr. Poe is keeping too close an eye on them

14. Once the invention is complete, what is it that Violet has made?
(a) A grappling hook
(b) A pulley system
(c) A bungee
(d) A harpoon

15. What is Klaus' costume for the play?
(a) A policeman's uniform
(b) A poilot suit
(c) A sailor suit
(d) An army outfit

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Klaus say they will take what they have learned in order to get Olaf in trouble?

2. Who comes by and tells the children they look wonderful after they are in their outfits?

3. What does Mr. Poe tell the children before they go onstage?

4. Klaus says that Count Olaf's plan wouldn't work if he and Violet were what?

5. What does Klaus see Violet do that he hadn't seen her do in a long time?

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