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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Sunny's bedroom filled with?
(a) Tools.
(b) Toys suitable for babies with softer teeth.
(c) Toys for teenagers.
(d) Books.

2. What is the one thing Violet cannot find in her bedroom at the Squalor's penthouse apartment?
(a) Video games.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Tools.
(d) T.V.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of restaurant is Cafe Salmonella?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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