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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 suggest that Count Olaf might be trying to prove in order to get at the children's money?

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

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

4. What does Justice Strauss suggest that Sunny do while Violet and Klaus go through the law books?

5. Who stands beside Klaus for the duration of the play?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. While Violet and Klaus are trying to think of a way to get out of the tower in Chapter 11 what things do they discuss but don't offer any help?

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

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

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

6. How is the tower described in Chapter 11?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The Poe children are quite upset at sharing their room with the Baudelaire orphans. Is their reaction to having the Baudelaire children understandable? Realistic?

What does it say about the Poe children that they treat the Baudelaire's in such a manner? What does it say about the Poe parents?

Essay Topic 3

Count Olaf seems to have a large following in his acting troupe. Why is he able to command so much loyalty? Why are Justice Strauss, Mr. Poe and seemingly every other adult taken in by his rouse?

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