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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 do when she is thinking about inventions?

2. What does Klaus say he would like to buy if he could use the family money?

3. What do the children see on Count Olaf?

4. What fruit has been put with their breakfast that Count Olaf has served?

5. What does Klaus explain it is that makes the figure look frightening?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the mood of the Baudelaire children in the beginning of Chapter 2 after they have learned of their parents' deaths.

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

3. What is Count Olaf's reaction upon learning they are not having roast beef?

4. 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?

5. What does the bald man do before he joins Olaf and the others in the dinning room?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of the story it is said that the children face an unknown future. Is their situation any better or safer at the end than it had been when they were living with Count Olaf? Explain. If the story had stopped here, and there had been no sequel, how would it have affected the reader's perception of what happens to the children long term?

Essay Topic 2

The two adults in the story that are seemingly trying to help the Baudelaire children are Mr. Poe and Justice Strauss.

1) Compare the personalities of Mr. Poe and Justice Strauss.

2) What was the role of each of these characters in the story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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