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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 the name of the play should be changed to?
(a) The Marriage to get the Orphan's Money
(b) Dirty Old Man
(c) The Menacing Marriage
(d) The Unending Marriage

2. What type of book is it that the narrator explains practically no one likes to read about?
(a) Law
(b) Orphans
(c) Death
(d) Medicine

3. What does Klaus suggest that they do in order to stop the performance?
(a) Become mute
(b) Have stage fright
(c) Be sick
(d) Fall down and twist an ankle

4. What does Violet's invention look like when she initially gets done?
(a) A hat
(b) A metal spider
(c) A cat's claw
(d) A clothes hanger

5. Klaus says that Count Olaf's plan wouldn't work if he and Violet were what?
(a) Methodists
(b) Polygamists
(c) Muslim
(d) Nudists

6. Why does Violet not untie Sunny immediately after the hook-handed man has left the room?
(a) Afraid of hurtintg Sunny
(b) So Sunny wouldn't cry
(c) She can't undo the ropes
(d) Afraid of making Olaf even angrier

7. What does Violet suggest that Count Olaf might be trying to prove in order to get at the children's money?
(a) That they are sick
(b) That they are insane
(c) That he is worthy of the vast fortune
(d) That the family owed him money

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

9. How does Violet sleep that night?
(a) Fitfully
(b) Very little
(c) Deeply
(d) Like a log

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

11. What type of knot does Violet use to tie the strips of cloth together?
(a) Poop Knot
(b) Slip Knot
(c) Butterfly Knot
(d) Devil's Tongue

12. What does Klaus say is the name of the book that he has been up all night reading?
(a) Marriage for underage orphans
(b) Marriage and Matramony
(c) Nuptial Law
(d) Prenuptsials and agreements

13. What explanation does Klaus give to Justice Strauss for why they are reading her large law books?
(a) They want to get to their family's money sooner
(b) They are considering a career in law
(c) They want to get away from Olaf
(d) They have been watching Court T.V.

14. Who comes to get Klaus and calls him home?
(a) The white faced women
(b) The bald man
(c) Count Olaf
(d) Hook-handed man

15. Why did Klaus choose not to tell Violet that he had smuggled a book out of the library?
(a) He didn't want to give her false hope
(b) He didn't want her to get in trouble
(c) He was afraid she would make him put it back
(d) They didn't have a chance to talk in private

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hook-handed man threaten to do if there is any 'monkey business'?

2. What does Klaus think of while Violet is signing the document?

3. Once the invention is complete, what is it that Violet has made?

4. What does Violet begin doing while they are trapped in the tower?

5. Why doesn't Violet tell Klaus about her plan?

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