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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 say she would like a book on?

2. What kind of dish do the children decide on for Count Olaf and his troop?

3. Where do the Baudelaire children decide the map of the city that Count Olaf had talked about must be?

4. Why does Mr. Poe say that the Baudelaires' parents most likely never invited Count Olaf over?

5. How long does Mr. Poe say the children have to wait to be able to use their family's money?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the people that come into Count Olaf's house to have dinner.

4. What is Violet's first thought when she sees the figure walking towards them in Chapter 1?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List several of Count Olaf's acting troupe followers that the children mention throughout their stay. What is the purpose of these characters remaining nameless? If you had to name the characters what would they be named?

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 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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