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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is at the curve of the staircase on each floor?
(a) A door and a pair of sliding elevator doors.
(b) A gift.
(c) A candle.
(d) A gate.

2. How many windows are in the Squalor penthouse, according to the narrator?
(a) 83.
(b) 498.
(c) 849.
(d) 949.

3. According to the narrator, which element would not be found in a chemistry class?
(a) Money.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silver.
(d) The element of surprise.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 1, what two words does the narrator say the book will show the difference between?
(a) Nervous and anxious.
(b) Happy and sad.
(c) Bad and good.
(d) Brave and scared.

5. Which character is dressed in black riding boots, a pinstriped suit, and a monocle?
(a) The doorman.
(b) Esme.
(c) Count Olaf.
(d) Jerome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Lot #50 of the In Auction?

2. Which of the Baudelaire orphans wear glasses?

3. What does Klaus hope his new guardians will have for him when he gets to the apartment?

4. How could the Baudelaire children tell the clothes would dwarf them by comparison?

5. According to the narrator, what does the phrase "dwarfed by comparison" not have to deal with?

(see the answer key)

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