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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 do when he hears Violet say 'I do' to Count Olaf?

2. What does Violet see still laying on the ground untouched when they follow Count Olaf outside?

3. What is it that prevents Sunny from crying out a warning to Violet?

4. What does the narrator explain is an 'incentive' to lawyers to read law books?

5. What does Klaus say the name of the play should be changed to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is the tower described in Chapter 11?

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

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 3

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.

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