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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 say he is going to go do?

2. What does the hook-handed man threaten to do if there is any 'monkey business'?

3. What is Klaus' costume for the play?

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

5. What does Justice Strauss suggest that Sunny do while Violet and Klaus go through the law books?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. How is the tower described in Chapter 11?

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

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

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

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

Describe the relationships between Sunny and Klaus. Violet and Sunny, Klaus and Violet.

In what ways are they typical siblings? In what ways are they atypical?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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