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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 Violet do that causes her to begin thinking as she walks down the stairs with Olaf to the play?
(a) Sneezes and catches it with her right hand
(b) Puts her hair back
(c) Stops herself from falling with her right hand
(d) Holds Klaus' hand with her left hand

2. What does Count Olaf say he has put in the tower staircase to keep the kids from getting ideas?
(a) Locks
(b) Dogs
(c) His assistants
(d) Traps

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

4. What does Count Olaf compare the children to?
(a) Stubborn pig
(b) Stray dog
(c) Stubborn mule
(d) Lame horse

5. What does Klaus do when he hears Violet say 'I do' to Count Olaf?
(a) Kicks the bald headed man
(b) Spits
(c) Clenches his fists
(d) Screams

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus say is the name of the book that he has been up all night reading?

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

3. What does Violet see still laying on the ground untouched when they follow Count Olaf outside?

4. What does Violet's invention look like when she initially gets done?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it that Violet's parents told her when they brought both Klaus, and later, Sunny, home from the hospital?

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

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

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

5. What is Justice Strauss' reaction when she sees the children before they go on in Chapter 12?

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

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

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. What does Violet find when she reaches the top of the tower and has climbed her grappling hook?

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

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