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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 word does Mr. Poe explain the meaning of to the children although they already know it?
(a) Died
(b) Perish
(c) Engulfed
(d) Destroyed

2. Where do the Baudelaire children decide the map of the city that Count Olaf had talked about must be?
(a) In Count Olaf's bedroom
(b) His tower
(c) There never was one
(d) With Count Olaf

3. What does Violet say that they must do, quoting her father, after Klaus says he hates everything about Olaf's home?
(a) Keep our chins up
(b) Look for the silver lining
(c) Have a stiff upper lip
(d) Whistle while you work

4. What does Olaf say he has become since he has adopted the children?
(a) Their master
(b) Their father
(c) Their worst nightmare
(d) Their lord

5. What do the children put their clothes in at Count Olaf's house?
(a) A laundry basket
(b) A refrigerator box
(c) A broken dresser
(d) A chair

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the theater troupe do when they are ready to have dinner?

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

3. What does the peep hole on Count Olaf's door look like?

4. What does Justice Strauss show the children that excites them?

5. What does Klaus say he would like to buy if he could use the family money?

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 suggest they do in Chapter 5 while they are chopping wood? What is Klaus' reaction?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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