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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Squalor want to adopt the children?
(a) Because she feels bad for them.
(b) Because orphans are in.
(c) Because her husband suggested it.
(d) Because she loves kids.

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

3. How many rooms does the Squalor's home have?
(a) 88.
(b) 71.
(c) 10.
(d) 100.

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

5. According to the narrator, above all the other issues the Baudelaires have to deal with, what do they worry about the most?
(a) The whereabouts of the Quagmires.
(b) The whereabouts of Count Olaf.
(c) The sizes of their rooms.
(d) The whereabouts of Mr. Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mr. Squalor, who did he hike up Mount Fraught with?

2. Who had been the Baudelaire orphans' first guardian?

3. Jerome finds Klaus a bedroom he thinks will fit his interests, but what's wrong with it?

4. What happened to the Quagmire children?

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

(see the answer key)

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