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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 explanation does Klaus give to Justice Strauss for why they are reading her large law books?

2. Who does Count Olaf find waiting for him at the breakfast table the next morning?

3. When does Count Olaf say he will release Sunny?

4. What does Klaus say is the name of the book that he has been up all night reading?

5. Who do the children find standing behind them while they search for Sunny?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sunny is an infant and although her presence causes many actions and reactions she doesn't have a very large role in the story.

1) Describe Sunny's personality.

2) How would the story have changed if there had been no Sunny?

3) How would the story have changed if Sunny had been much older?

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

1) What is significant about Mr. Poe's coughing fits? What feeling or thought is the author trying to impart to the reader by giving Mr. Poe these coughing fits?

2) What does it further say about Mr. Poe when the children go to see him at the bank?

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