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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 does Violet's invention look like when she initially gets done?

3. What does Klaus suggest that they do in order to stop the performance?

4. Who stops to talk to the children and warns them that Sunny is still in danger?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the grappling hook that Violet creates to attempt a rescue in Chapter 8.

2. What is Justice Strauss' response when Violet and Klaus ask her if she is excited about being in Olaf's play in Chapter 7?

3. Describe the play as Klaus recounts it in chapter twelve while he is watching Count Olaf's performance.

4. 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?

5. What are the costumes that Klaus and Violet are put into for 'The Marvelous Marriage'?

6. Describe what Count Olaf says and Violet thinks when he is asking her if it would be so bad being married to him in Chapter 8?

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

8. What does Violet find when she reaches the top of the tower and has climbed her grappling hook?

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

10. How does Klaus describe Olaf's plans as he has discovered them in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) What is significant about Count Olaf's acting career?

2) Could Count Olaf have had a different career? Explain.

3) What is general thought about actors as a stereotype? Does Count Olaf fit this description? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The law books seem to play a large role in Klaus' research. What is the purpose of the author using law books for Klaus' focus? What alternative could have been used for Klaus?

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