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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is missing on the orphans' new street?
(a) Pavement.
(b) Cars.
(c) Street lamps.
(d) Street signs.

2. What does Violet hope the new guardians will have for her when she gets to the apartment?
(a) Tools.
(b) Flowers.
(c) A separate bedroom.
(d) Food.

3. What can the orphans hear from behind the doors on each floor?
(a) Arguing.
(b) The noises of people who lived in the building.
(c) Whispering.
(d) Crying.

4. 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 wedding.
(c) A party.
(d) A birthday party.

5. In Chapter 1, what does the narrator suggest the reader do instead of reading this book?
(a) Read the story backward.
(b) Curl up with a dictionary.
(c) Read the book.
(d) Skip ahead to chapter four.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Count Olaf have on his ankle?

2. What does the narrator suggest the reader do to understand how the Baudelaire orphans feel climbing the staircase without light?

3. When the Baudelaire children reach the Squalor penthouse apartment, who answers the door?

4. What is at the curve of the staircase on each floor?

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

(see the answer key)

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