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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. When does the hook-handed man say that Klaus might be allowed back in the library?
(a) After supper
(b) The next day
(c) When pigs fly
(d) After the play

2. What does Count Olaf say is a reason that he wouldn't want to marry Violet?
(a) Count Olaf can have any number of pretty women
(b) Violet is below his station
(c) Count Olaf is too old for Violet
(d) Count Olaf is already married

3. What is Justice Strauss called off to do?
(a) Have her hair done
(b) Go get on her ceremonial robes
(c) Practice her lines
(d) Put on makeup

4. Who does Count Olaf find waiting for him at the breakfast table the next morning?
(a) Violet
(b) Justice Strauss
(c) Klaus
(d) Sunny

5. What does the hook-handed man call Violet when he tells Count Olaf what she had tried to do?
(a) Ball and Chain
(b) Blushing Bride
(c) Stinking Orphan
(d) Money Honey

Short Answer Questions

1. What explanation does Klaus give to Justice Strauss for why they are reading her large law books?

2. What does Violet do that causes her to begin thinking as she walks down the stairs with Olaf to the play?

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

4. What does Mr. Poe tell the children before they go onstage?

5. What does Klaus tell Justice Strauss to make sure Sunny doesn't eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the costumes that Klaus and Violet are put into for 'The Marvelous Marriage'?

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

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

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

5. What is Count Olaf's response when Klaus reveals he has discovered Olaf's plan?

6. How does Klaus' all night reading in Chapter 8 compare to how he used to stay up all night reading when his parents were alive?

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

8. 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?

9. Describe what Count Olaf says and Violet thinks when he is asking her if it would be so bad being married to him in Chapter 8?

10. What is Justice Strauss' response when Violet and Klaus ask her if she is excited about being in Olaf's play in Chapter 7?

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