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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 type of book is it that the narrator explains practically no one likes to read about?

2. What image wakes Klaus up when he begins to have trouble focusing on the book?

3. What does Klaus rip a paper into pieces for while he reads?

4. What is it that prevents Sunny from crying out a warning to Violet?

5. What does Klaus tell Justice Strauss to make sure Sunny doesn't eat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in Chapter 8 where Count Olaf walks the children out to see where Sunny is being held.

2. While Violet and Klaus are trying to think of a way to get out of the tower in Chapter 11 what things do they discuss but don't offer any help?

3. What is described as the difference between the reasons that the Baudelaire children read the books and the reasons that lawyers read law books in Chapter 7?

4. What does Klaus do as the hook-handed man leaves the library to fetch Violet and Sunny in Chapter 7?

5. What is it that Violet's parents told her when they brought both Klaus, and later, Sunny, home from the hospital?

6. What does the hook-handed man tell Klaus in Chapter 7 that frightens Klaus?

7. How does Klaus' all night reading in Chapter 8 compare to how he used to stay up all night reading when his parents were alive?

8. Describe the scene seen by the children at the beginning of Chapter 12 while they are standing back stage of the play.

9. Describe the scene in Chapter 8 where Klaus goes to wake up Violet and explain Olaf's plan.

10. Describe the scene where Violet is walking down the stairs to do the play, The Marvelous Marriage, in Chapter 11.

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

Violet and Klaus both seem to want to protect each other. Which seems to be more of the leader of the children? Explain your answer. Which do you think would be the better leader? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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