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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator suggest the reader do to understand how the Baudelaire orphans feel climbing the staircase without light?
(a) Turn out the lights and read.
(b) Flip the book over.
(c) Close their eyes as they read the chapter.
(d) Rip the pages out.

2. According to Esme, which district is not a place for young people?
(a) The Beverage district.
(b) The Dark district.
(c) The Fish district.
(d) The Beach district.

3. According to Mr. Squalor, what is his wife most attentive to?
(a) What's going on down the street.
(b) What's out.
(c) What's happening in the building.
(d) What's in and what's out.

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

5. What does Duncan Quagmire have in his notebook?
(a) Notes on plants.
(b) Information about Olaf's plans.
(c) A poem for Violet.
(d) Drawings of Count Olaf.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Klaus, what does ersatz mean?

2. What is Jerome's suggestion for putting the Baudelaires' mind at ease?

3. Where does Violet tell her siblings to meet her once they reach the top of the ersatz rope?

4. How old is the oldest Baudelaire orphan?

5. Why does the narrator state that the streets sounded like fish?

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