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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 Count Olaf 'innocently' suggest that Violet and Klaus do if they want to see something unusual?
(a) Go to the tower
(b) Read the paper
(c) Follow him to the back yard
(d) Call the hook-handed man

2. Who comes by and tells the children they look wonderful after they are in their outfits?
(a) The hook-handed man
(b) Justice Strauss
(c) Mr. Poe
(d) Count Olaf

3. What does Violet suggest that Count Olaf might be trying to prove in order to get at the children's money?
(a) That the family owed him money
(b) That he is worthy of the vast fortune
(c) That they are sick
(d) That they are insane

4. What does the hook-handed man tell Violet to do when he hoists her up into the room?
(a) Wait for Count Olaf
(b) Go back to bed
(c) Put on the hand cuffs
(d) Have a seat

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the hook-handed man hold in front of Klaus' face after threatening him?

2. In the story that Violet found, who did a woman leave her money to instead of her three sons?

3. Violet says she could make Molotov cocktails if she had what ingredient?

4. What does the hook-handed man threaten to do if there is any 'monkey business'?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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