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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 Violet create using her knot-tying skills and the strips of cloth?

2. What does Klaus think of while Violet is signing the document?

3. What does Violet take to the tower stairs?

4. In the story that Violet found, who did a woman leave her money to instead of her three sons?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is Count Olaf's response when Klaus reveals he has discovered Olaf's plan?

9. 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?

10. What is Count Olaf's response in Chapter 8 when Klaus calls him a terrible man?

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

Violet and Klaus are the two main characters pitted against Count Olaf. Compare the characters of Klaus and Violet to that of Count Olaf. Does Count Olaf have any good qualities? Do the children have any bad ones? Imagine their roles are reversed, then explain how the story might play out.

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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