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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 Violet suggest they go to Justice Strauss' house for?

2. Where does Klaus say he would rather take his chances than with Count Olaf?

3. What reason does Olaf give the children for asking Justice Strauss to play the judge in his play?

4. What reason does Mr. Poe give to explain Count Olaf's busy schedule?

5. What does Justice Strauss show the children that excites them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. At the beginning of Chapter 5 what are the children's moods when they wake up the next morning?

4. Describe the scene after Olaf and his troupe leave the house to go to their performance.

5. What does Violet mean when she says that Mr. Poe was like the executioner in Chapter 1?

6. Describe the children's sleeping conditions at Count Olaf's home.

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

8. What is the children's response in Chapter 1 when they hear that their parents have just died?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the relationships between Sunny and Klaus. Violet and Sunny, Klaus and Violet.

In what ways are they typical siblings? In what ways are they atypical?

Essay Topic 2

Why do many of the adults continually treat Klaus and Violet as if they are children without any sense? What is the author's goal with treating his main characters this way?

Essay Topic 3

Mr. Poe says he cannot leave the Baudelaire children with Justice Strauss because she is not a relative.

1) Is Mr. Poe right to refuse the children's home with Justice Strauss? Explain.

2) Is a person's will so sacred that it should be followed at the expense of those living? Explain.

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