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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 the hook-handed man call Violet when he tells Count Olaf what she had tried to do?

2. What is Violet's costume in the play?

3. How does Violet sleep that night?

4. What type of knot does Violet use to tie the strips of cloth together?

5. What does Violet use to make a bandage for the wound inflicted by the grappling hook's failed attempt?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe what makes Violet's plan risky and dangerous.

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

9. What is Justice Strauss' reaction when she sees the children before they go on in Chapter 12?

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

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

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 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?

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