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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 Violet begin to do when she sees the figure walking towards them on the beach?
(a) Runs
(b) Throws a rock
(c) Hides
(d) Yells for the police

2. What is the only decoration in the children's room?
(a) A sculpture of an eye
(b) A statue of Count Olaf
(c) A picture of a house burning
(d) A painting of an eye

3. What does Violet do just before she gets ready to start thinking of an invention?
(a) Exercises
(b) Puts on her glasses
(c) Starts chewing on her nails
(d) Pulls her hair back

4. What has Count Olaf made for the children to eat when they awake the next morning?
(a) Burnt toast
(b) Eggs
(c) Oatmeal
(d) Pancakes

5. What is noticed about the figure approaching the children before it gets to them?
(a) It limps
(b) It is tall and square
(c) It is tall and lean
(d) It is carrying a package

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dish do the children decide on for Count Olaf and his troop?

2. What does Violet call Count Olaf while trying to keep him from getting mad when she tries to refuse to take part in the play?

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

4. What does Sunny say that gives Klaus and Violet an idea of what to do to learn about Olaf's plans?

5. Where do the Baudelaire children decide the map of the city that Count Olaf had talked about must be?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Justice Strauss tell the children when they see her extensive book collection?

2. What does a normal day entail for the children at Count Olaf's house as described early on in Chapter 3?

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

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. Describe how the story of the Baudelaire children is introduced.

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

7. Describe the people that come into Count Olaf's house to have dinner.

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

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

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

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