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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sunny do to Justice Strauss?

2. What does Klaus tell Mr. Poe that Count Olaf is?

3. What does Justice Strauss say she hopes the children will do soon?

4. What do the children do to figuratively escape Count Olaf's home?

5. What does Mr. Poe say must happen before the Baudelaire money can be used?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the response of Violet and Klaus when they are told they will be leaving the Poe household?

2. What is Violet's first thought when she sees the figure walking towards them in Chapter 1?

3. How does Mr. Poe treat the children while they are trying to talk to him in Chapter 5?

4. How does Count Olaf's house look when the children first see it?

5. In Chapter 3 after Klaus and Violet think about their parents what does Klaus suddenly begin yelling?

6. Describe the people that come into Count Olaf's house to have dinner.

7. In Chapter 6 what is the children's response to the breakfast that Count Olaf makes?

8. Describe how the story of the Baudelaire children is introduced.

9. What is the children's response to Count Olaf when they first meet?

10. What does Violet suggest they do in Chapter 5 while they are chopping wood? What is Klaus' reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sunny is an infant and although her presence causes many actions and reactions she doesn't have a very large role in the story.

1) Describe Sunny's personality.

2) How would the story have changed if there had been no Sunny?

3) How would the story have changed if Sunny had been much older?

Essay Topic 2

1) What is significant about Count Olaf's acting career?

2) Could Count Olaf have had a different career? Explain.

3) What is general thought about actors as a stereotype? Does Count Olaf fit this description? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

1) What is significant about Mr. Poe's coughing fits? What feeling or thought is the author trying to impart to the reader by giving Mr. Poe these coughing fits?

2) What does it further say about Mr. Poe when the children go to see him at the bank?

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