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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. How long does Mr. Poe say the children have to wait to be able to use their family's money?
(a) Violet gets out of college
(b) The children all have turned 21
(c) Sunny comes of age
(d) Violet comes of age

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

3. What is wrong with the clothing that Mrs. Poe purchased for the children?
(a) It was too large
(b) It was itchy
(c) It was too small
(d) It was used and dirty

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

5. Who does Count Olaf say he got a phone call from?
(a) Justice Strauss
(b) Mr. Poe
(c) Their family lawyer
(d) Mrs. Poe

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus say he would like a book on?

2. What is in the corner of Strauss' personal library that doesn't contain books?

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?

4. What do the children do to figuratively escape Count Olaf's home?

5. What does Klaus tell Mr. Poe that Count Olaf is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. What is Violet's initial response to playing Count Olaf's bride in Chapter 6?

6. What is the children's response to Count Olaf when they first meet?

7. What events do the children remember while talking about Violet burning the toast in Chapter 3?

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

9. What does Mr. Poe explain will happen to the children now that their parents are dead?

10. In Chapter 6 what is the children's response to the breakfast that Count Olaf makes?

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