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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After arriving home from Café Salmonella, what kinds of noises do the children hear as they climb the stairs to the penthouse?
(a) The sounds of people eating.
(b) The sounds of people singing.
(c) The sounds of people wrestling.
(d) The sounds of people going to bed.

2. Throughout Chapter 6, who do the children spend the morning searching the penthouse for?
(a) Gunther.
(b) The Quagmires.
(c) Mr. Poe.
(d) Jerome.

3. How could the Baudelaire children tell the clothes would dwarf them by comparison?
(a) They try them on.
(b) The Squalors say so.
(c) The clothes are used.
(d) The sizes are labeled too large.

4. What does Violet do the morning after Gunther arrives to help her think?
(a) She goes back to sleep.
(b) She plays with Sunny.
(c) She sits at her workbench and ties her hair up.
(d) She ties up her hair and eats cookies.

5. According to Duncan, how does Gunther plan to smuggle the Quagmires out of the city?
(a) To hide them in the Squalor's apartment until they come of age.
(b) To wait until orphans are "out" and move them to his dungeon.
(c) To transport the Quagmires by train to the Fish District.
(d) To hide the Quagmires inside one of the In Auction items.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mr. Squalor, what is one thing the children can do to save breath?

2. What does Isadora Quagmire have in her notebook?

3. What is an aqueous martini?

4. What three things do Klaus and Sunny discover that Violet believes will help free the Quagmires?

5. What does Violet tell the Quagmires after examining the lock on their cage?

(see the answer key)

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