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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. Why does Mr. Poe explain the children will be going to live with Count Olaf?

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

3. What does Violet wish that she had bought at the market to put in Olaf's food?

4. Who does Klaus suggest could adopt them?

5. What does Count Olaf tell the children that he wants them to do in order to feel more at home with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Poe explain will happen to the children now that their parents are dead?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is there anything that the children could have done to befriend Count Olaf?

Would he have been set on killing the children no matter what? Why?

Could Violet have offered him money and bought her and her siblings freedom?

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

The Poe children are quite upset at sharing their room with the Baudelaire orphans. Is their reaction to having the Baudelaire children understandable? Realistic?

What does it say about the Poe children that they treat the Baudelaire's in such a manner? What does it say about the Poe parents?

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