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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 Count Olaf say he will release Sunny?
(a) After the play
(b) When Klaus is dead
(c) After he has the money
(d) When Violet signs over her rights to the money

2. What does the hook-handed man say he is going to go do?
(a) Get Klaus
(b) Burn the grappling hook
(c) Take Violet to the garage
(d) Go find some rope

3. What does Violet see Sunny is held in?
(a) Straight jacket
(b) Dog house
(c) Bird cage
(d) Wooden box

4. What image wakes Klaus up when he begins to have trouble focusing on the book?
(a) Count Olaf hiting him
(b) The white faced ladies
(c) His parents dying
(d) The hooks from the hook-handed man

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of book is it that the narrator explains practically no one likes to read about?

2. What does Count Olaf do to Violet while talking to her?

3. What reason does Violet give for not being able to marry?

4. What does Violet take to the tower stairs?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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. Describe the grappling hook that Violet creates to attempt a rescue in Chapter 8.

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

10. 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?

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