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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Esme make the Baudelaires carry up to their penthouse apartment?
(a) Yellow paperclips.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Pizzas.
(d) Parsley soda.

3. What condition do the Baudelaires find the Quagmires?
(a) Happy.
(b) Healthy.
(c) Filthy and haunted.
(d) Nervous.

4. Where does Sunny like to visit during the morning outings, but her memories of the place are fuzzy?
(a) Bookstore.
(b) Pincus Hospital.
(c) The museum of art.
(d) The war memorial.

5. According to the narrator, what does a nefarious disguise mean?
(a) A phrase that means the disguise is stylish and in.
(b) A phrase that means he does not fool them one bit, no matter what he is wearing.
(c) A phrase that means she does not fool them one bit, no matter what she is wearing.
(d) A phrase that means ugly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Klaus's idiosyncrasy?

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

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

4. What does the man in the sunglasses tell the Baudelaire children at the In Auction?

5. How many floors down is it from the Squalor's penthouse apartment to the bottom floor?

(see the answer key)

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