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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 do Violet and Klaus tell Justice Strauss to do during the play to make it more fun?
(a) To suddenly fall and pretend to faint
(b) Change her lines around on stage
(c) To sing the lines
(d) To interupt the wedding and announce her love for the groom

2. What does Klaus see Violet do that he hadn't seen her do in a long time?
(a) Begin drawing an invention
(b) Cross her arms
(c) Tie up her hair
(d) Whistle

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

4. What does Violet use to make a bandage for the wound inflicted by the grappling hook's failed attempt?
(a) Sleeve of her nightgown
(b) Tape
(c) One of Count Olaf's shirts
(d) Piece of the grappling hook rope

5. Why did Klaus choose not to tell Violet that he had smuggled a book out of the library?
(a) He didn't want to give her false hope
(b) He was afraid she would make him put it back
(c) He didn't want her to get in trouble
(d) They didn't have a chance to talk in private

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Violet sleep that night?

2. What does Violet see Sunny is held in?

3. What does Justice Strauss suggest that Sunny do while Violet and Klaus go through the law books?

4. Who comes by and tells the children they look wonderful after they are in their outfits?

5. What is it that makes Violet try the grappling hook even after she has been injured?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. How is the tower described in Chapter 11?

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

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

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