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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

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 128 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Sunny do when Count Olaf picks her up?
(a) Cries
(b) Hits him with a spoon
(c) Bites him
(d) Giggles

2. What does Mr. Poe say must happen before the Baudelaire money can be used?
(a) Sunny must turn 21
(b) Violet must come of age
(c) Klaus must marry
(d) The children must die

3. 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) Mud
(c) Oil
(d) Blood

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Violet say she would like a book on?

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

4. Who does Klaus suggest could adopt them?

5. What does Justice Strauss do that immediately puts Violet at ease?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Violet mean when she says that Mr. Poe was like the executioner in Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 3 what is explained by the narrator when Klaus says he hopes the person knocking on the door is someone to visit them?

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

5. What is Edgar and Albert's response when Mr. Poe tells the Baudelaire children that they are leaving the next day?

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

7. In Chapter 3 after Klaus and Violet think about their parents what does Klaus suddenly begin yelling?

8. How does Count Olaf's house look when the children first see it?

9. What does the bald man do before he joins Olaf and the others in the dinning room?

10. What does Violet give as the reason she should not participate in the Marvelous Marriage?

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