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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the Baudelaire orphans wear glasses?
(a) Sunny.
(b) Klaus.
(c) Tammy.
(d) Violet.

2. While climbing the staircase, Violet recalls what event that her parents attended that made them extremely tired?
(a) Sixteenth Annual Run-a-Thon.
(b) A birthday party.
(c) A wedding.
(d) A party.

3. Who slides down the banister first and laughs?
(a) Violet
(b) Jerome.
(c) Sunny.
(d) Klaus.

4. During their first few days with the Squalors, whom do the Baudelaires scarcely see?
(a) Esme Squalor.
(b) Mr. Poe.
(c) Sunny.
(d) Jerome Squalor.

5. Jerome finds Klaus a bedroom he thinks will fit his interests, but what's wrong with it?
(a) The library is filled with books about fashionable things.
(b) The library is filled magazines about plants.
(c) The library isn't close to his bedroom.
(d) The library is empty.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is the definition of "anxious"?

2. What is one of the things the Baudelaire children are afraid has happened since Gunther arrived?

3. In Chapter 1, what does the narrator suggest the reader do instead of reading this book?

4. When the Baudelaire children reach the Squalor penthouse apartment, what does the person who answers the door wear?

5. According to Mr. Squalor, what is his wife most attentive to?

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