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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 is Violet's costume in the play?

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

3. What does Mr. Poe tell the children before they go onstage?

4. What does Klaus see Violet do that he hadn't seen her do in a long time?

5. Where does Violet get injured while throwing the grappling hook?

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. Describe how Count Olaf compares the children to a stubborn mule in Chapter 8?

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

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

6. What does the narrator tell the audience that they would find in his room as he describes it in Chapter 11?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mr. Poe says he cannot leave the Baudelaire children with Justice Strauss because she is not a relative.

1) Is Mr. Poe right to refuse the children's home with Justice Strauss? Explain.

2) Is a person's will so sacred that it should be followed at the expense of those living? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

The children are trying to think up ways out of the tower and come up with several odd possibilities but nothing that will work.

1) What does it say about the children and their knowledge that they are able to come up with Molotov cocktails and polygamy?

2) What would you have done if you were in their position?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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