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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 Klaus suggest that they do in order to stop the performance?

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

3. Who does Klaus say they will take what they have learned in order to get Olaf in trouble?

4. Why does Violet not untie Sunny immediately after the hook-handed man has left the room?

5. What does Violet do that causes her to begin thinking as she walks down the stairs with Olaf to the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The two adults in the story that are seemingly trying to help the Baudelaire children are Mr. Poe and Justice Strauss.

1) Compare the personalities of Mr. Poe and Justice Strauss.

2) What was the role of each of these characters in the story?

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

What is the significance of the play's name 'The Marvelous Marriage'? What other names could Count Olaf have come up with and created the same effect? Suggest your own name for the play, and give your reasons why.

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