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This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Bad Beginning Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the children tell Mr. Poe that Count Olaf is always asking about?
(a) Why the children smell funny
(b) Their money
(c) The house fire
(d) Their father's will

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children see on Count Olaf?

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

3. What kind of pictures does the book that Sunny chooses have?

4. What does Olaf say he is doing when the theater troupe arrives?

5. How is the trolley described that the children are allowed to take to the beach?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Violet doing while she is standing on the beach in Chapter 1?

2. Describe the children's sleeping conditions at Count Olaf's home.

3. Describe the Baudelaire children's response when they first meet Justice Strauss.

4. What does Mr. Poe tell the children when they say that Count Olaf is a terrible guardian and explain Count Olaf's behavior in Chapter 5?

5. How does Mr. Poe treat the children while they are trying to talk to him in Chapter 5?

6. What do Count's guests say when they find that Count is disciplining the children?

7. How does Count Olaf describe the play, The Marvelous Marriage, to the children?

8. Explain what happens when Klaus talks back to Count Olaf in chapter four telling him that their family money can't be touched until Violet is of age.

9. Describe the scene after Olaf and his troupe leave the house to go to their performance.

10. What is the children's response in Chapter 1 when they hear that their parents have just died?

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