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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Esme Squalor do for a living?
(a) She is the sixth most important financial advisor.
(b) She is the most important school teacher.
(c) She is the number one most important financial advisor.
(d) She is the tenth most important financial advisor.

2. What type of ice cream does the narrator at the beginning of Chapter 1 state you may be nervous about eating?
(a) Chocolate ice cream.
(b) Vanilla ice cream.
(c) Expired ice cream.
(d) Prune ice cream.

3. Who had been the Baudelaire orphans' first guardian?
(a) Mr. Poe.
(b) Count Baudelaire.
(c) Count Olaf.
(d) Mr. Smith.

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

5. When the Baudelaire children reach the Squalor penthouse apartment, who answers the door?
(a) Count Olaf.
(b) Mr. Poe.
(c) Mr. Squalor.
(d) Mrs. Squalor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Violet hope the new guardians will have for her when she gets to the apartment?

2. What is Mr. Poe's job description?

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

4. When the children first meet Mr. Squalor, what does he offer to get them?

5. What happened to the Quagmire children?

(see the answer key)

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