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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 is wrong with the clothing that Mrs. Poe purchased for the children?

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

3. What does Count Olaf tell the children to do if they want another bed?

4. What is Violet thinking of inventing a machine to do while they are on the beach?

5. What does Sunny do while Violet and Klaus prepare the meal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the Baudelaire children's response when they first meet Justice Strauss.

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

6. What does Mr. Poe tell the children when they say that Count Olaf is a terrible guardian and explain Count Olaf's behavior in Chapter 5?

7. What does Justice Strauss tell the children when they see her extensive book collection?

8. What does a normal day entail for the children at Count Olaf's house as described early on in Chapter 3?

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

10. Explain what happens when Klaus talks back to Count Olaf in chapter four telling him that their family money can't be touched until Violet is of age.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Violet and Klaus are the two main characters pitted against Count Olaf. Compare the characters of Klaus and Violet to that of Count Olaf. Does Count Olaf have any good qualities? Do the children have any bad ones? Imagine their roles are reversed, then explain how the story might play out.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The children are trying to think up ways out of the tower and come up with several odd possibilities but nothing that will work.

1) What does it say about the children and their knowledge that they are able to come up with Molotov cocktails and polygamy?

2) What would you have done if you were in their position?

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