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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 Justice Strauss suggest that Sunny do while Violet and Klaus go through the law books?
(a) Take a nap
(b) Find some toys to bite
(c) Garden with her
(d) Go swing

2. What does the narrator explain is an 'incentive' to lawyers to read law books?
(a) Knowledge
(b) Job security
(c) Respect
(d) Money

3. Where does Count Olaf say that Sunny will remain until after the play?
(a) With the hook-handed man
(b) The tower
(c) At Justice Strauss' house
(d) His bedroom

4. What does Violet see still laying on the ground untouched when they follow Count Olaf outside?
(a) Sunny's chew toys
(b) The potatoes that Klaus and Violet had peeled
(c) The wood they had chopped
(d) Violet and Klaus' chore list

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Klaus says that Count Olaf's plan wouldn't work if he and Violet were what?

2. What does the hook-handed man say he is going to go do?

3. What does Violet take to the tower stairs?

4. What does Count Olaf demand to have before the children start their chores?

5. What does the hook-handed man call Violet when he tells Count Olaf what she had tried to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. While Violet and Klaus are trying to think of a way to get out of the tower in Chapter 11 what things do they discuss but don't offer any help?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the play as Klaus recounts it in chapter twelve while he is watching Count Olaf's performance.

9. 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?

10. Describe the grappling hook that Violet creates to attempt a rescue in Chapter 8.

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