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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 do the children have to play with?
2. What is the name of Count Olaf's play?
3. What is noticed about the figure approaching the children before it gets to them?
4. What did the children buy for dessert for Count Olaf and the troupe?
5. What does Violet begin to do when she sees the figure walking towards them on the beach?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does a normal day entail for the children at Count Olaf's house as described early on in Chapter 3?
2. What is Violet's initial response to playing Count Olaf's bride in Chapter 6?
3. Describe how the story of the Baudelaire children is introduced.
4. In Chapter 3 what is explained by the narrator when Klaus says he hopes the person knocking on the door is someone to visit them?
5. Describe the scene after Olaf and his troupe leave the house to go to their performance.
6. Describe the people that come into Count Olaf's house to have dinner.
7. How does Count Olaf describe the play, The Marvelous Marriage, to the children?
8. 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.
9. Describe the Baudelaire children's response when they first meet Justice Strauss.
10. What does Justice Strauss tell the children when they see her extensive book collection?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Take a closer look at Justice Strauss.
1) Why did she take to the children so quickly? Why did she offer to come let them live with her?
2) Why did the children not try to tell her about how they were being treated? Would she have believed them?
Essay Topic 2
Why is the symbol of an eye chosen to be used in Count Olaf's house and on his ankle? What does this image convey to the children? To the reader?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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