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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 find that Count Olaf is pointing at?

2. What type of knot does Violet use to tie the strips of cloth together?

3. What image wakes Klaus up when he begins to have trouble focusing on the book?

4. What does Violet begin doing while they are trapped in the tower?

5. What does Klaus say was unique about the Macbeth play that was put according to the law book he had been reading?

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

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

5. Describe the play as Klaus recounts it in chapter twelve while he is watching Count Olaf's performance.

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

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

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

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

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

Describe the feeling that the children have once they are put into Count Olaf's home. How is this reflected in the room they are forced to share? Explain your reasoning.

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