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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. Who do the children find standing behind them while they search for Sunny?
(a) The white faced ladies
(b) The bald man
(c) Count Olaf
(d) Hook-handed man

2. What reason does Violet give for not being able to marry?
(a) She is only fourteen
(b) She isn't ready
(c) She hasn't given consent
(d) She hasn't had a blood test

3. What is it that makes Violet try the grappling hook even after she has been injured?
(a) Her parents
(b) The thought of marrying Olaf
(c) The thought of Sunny alone and scared
(d) The promise she made to her parents

4. What does Klaus say is the name of the book that he has been up all night reading?
(a) Marriage and Matramony
(b) Nuptial Law
(c) Marriage for underage orphans
(d) Prenuptsials and agreements

5. What image wakes Klaus up when he begins to have trouble focusing on the book?
(a) The white faced ladies
(b) Count Olaf hiting him
(c) The hooks from the hook-handed man
(d) His parents dying

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus think of while Violet is signing the document?

2. What is Justice Strauss called off to do?

3. What is Violet's costume in the play?

4. What does the hook-handed man tell Violet to do when he hoists her up into the room?

5. Why does Violet not untie Sunny immediately after the hook-handed man has left the room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator tell the audience that they would find in his room as he describes it in Chapter 11?

2. Describe the scene in Chapter 8 where Count Olaf walks the children out to see where Sunny is being held.

3. Describe what makes Violet's plan risky and dangerous.

4. How is the tower described in Chapter 11?

5. What does the hook-handed man tell Klaus in Chapter 7 that frightens Klaus?

6. Describe the scene where Violet is walking down the stairs to do the play, The Marvelous Marriage, in Chapter 11.

7. Describe the scene seen by the children at the beginning of Chapter 12 while they are standing back stage of the play.

8. Describe the scene in Chapter 8 where Klaus goes to wake up Violet and explain Olaf's plan.

9. Describe how Count Olaf compares the children to a stubborn mule in Chapter 8?

10. What is described as the difference between the reasons that the Baudelaire children read the books and the reasons that lawyers read law books in Chapter 7?

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