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

2. What does Violet create using her knot-tying skills and the strips of cloth?
(a) A bed
(b) A ladder
(c) A noose
(d) A rope

3. What reason is explained to Klaus for the reason that Klaus has been allowed to live?
(a) Mr. Poe is keeping too close an eye on them
(b) Count Olaf is curious about Klaus
(c) Count Olaf doesn't yet have his money
(d) Justice Strauss has been watching

4. Who stops to talk to the children and warns them that Sunny is still in danger?
(a) The hook-handed man
(b) The white faced ladies
(c) The bald headed man
(d) Count Olaf

5. Klaus says that Count Olaf's plan wouldn't work if he and Violet were what?
(a) Methodists
(b) Polygamists
(c) Nudists
(d) Muslim

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do the children find standing behind them while they search for Sunny?

2. What does Klaus do when he hears Violet say 'I do' to Count Olaf?

3. What does Violet suggest that Count Olaf might be trying to prove in order to get at the children's money?

4. What does Count Olaf compare the children to?

5. What does the narrator explain is an 'incentive' to lawyers to read law books?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. What does Klaus do as the hook-handed man leaves the library to fetch Violet and Sunny in Chapter 7?

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

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

7. How does Klaus describe Olaf's plans as he has discovered them in Chapter 8?

8. 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?

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

10. What is Count Olaf's response in Chapter 8 when Klaus calls him a terrible man?

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