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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Baudelaires discover at the end of their chain of ties, curtain pulls, and extension cords?
(a) The Quagmires.
(b) Gunther.
(c) Esme's pet.
(d) A cage of snakes.

2. What does Duncan try to tell Violet in his notebook?
(a) His poem about her.
(b) His notes on Olaf.
(c) His drawings.
(d) About the V.F.D.

3. How does Violet propose to free the Quagmires from their cage?
(a) Telling Jerome.
(b) Calling the police.
(c) Welding.
(d) Contacting Mr. Poe.

4. Where does Violet tell her siblings to meet her once they reach the top of the ersatz rope?
(a) The library.
(b) The elevator shaft.
(c) Her bedroom.
(d) The kitchen.

5. What does the narrator say he would've done if he escaped from Gunther's plans?
(a) Tell everyone at Veblen Hall.
(b) Call the police.
(c) Run away to a deserted island.
(d) Run away to the far corner of the world and hide.

6. What do the Baudelaires find at the end of the hallway once they'd gone down the elevator shaft?
(a) Count Olaf.
(b) A red herring.
(c) Another cage.
(d) A cul-de-sac.

7. What does Esme yell down to the children after they decide they are okay?
(a) That orphans are no longer "in."
(b) That she would miss them.
(c) That they're not okay.
(d) That she's glad to be done with them.

8. When the Baudelaires arrive at the In Auction, what lot are the people bidding on?
(a) Lot #50.
(b) Lot #5.
(c) Lot #46.
(d) Lot #49.

9. What does Violet ask the man who is standing outside the trapdoor?
(a) For directions to Veblen Hall.
(b) For his name.
(c) If she could borrow his cell phone.
(d) For him to move out of the sunlight.

10. Who does the mailman believe the Baudelaires to be when he sees them come out of the trapdoor?
(a) Adults.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Monsters.
(d) Aliens.

11. What does Klaus realize about the elevators in the apartment building and the penthouse?
(a) Two pair of elevator doors are outside the penthouse.
(b) The elevators are being secretly used.
(c) Elevators are on every floor.
(d) Blue elevators are on floors 1, 5, and 18.

12. Where does Klaus want to go once they climb back up the ersatz rope to the penthouse?
(a) The Squalor library.
(b) The Squalor's bedroom.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) His bedroom.

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

14. What is strange about the winner of the large red herring statue?
(a) It's Mr. Poe.
(b) It's Gunther.
(c) It's a small child.
(d) It's the doorman.

15. What kind of soda is suddenly "in"?
(a) Strawberry.
(b) Cola.
(c) Vanilla.
(d) Parsley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isadora Quagmire have in her notebook?

2. What does Violet tell her siblings she wants them to search the penthouse for?

3. What does Sunny suggest they do to escape from the elevator shaft?

4. What do the Baudelaires do to the ceiling once they reach the dead end?

5. What does Klaus mean he says "The time isn't ripe for your invention"?

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