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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During their dinner at Café Salmonella, what does Jerome tell the children he can't stand?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Arguing.
(c) Xenophobes.
(d) Lying.

2. When Jerome and the children arrive back home from their dinner at Café Salmonella, what does the doorman tell them is now "in"?
(a) Ocean decorating.
(b) Salmon.
(c) Painting.
(d) Elevators.

3. What does the narrator suggest the reader do to understand how the Baudelaire orphans feel climbing the staircase without light?
(a) Rip the pages out.
(b) Flip the book over.
(c) Turn out the lights and read.
(d) Close their eyes as they read the chapter.

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) Bad and good.
(c) Brave and scared.
(d) Happy and sad.

5. While climbing the staircase, Violet recalls what event that her parents attended that made them extremely tired?
(a) A wedding.
(b) A birthday party.
(c) A party.
(d) Sixteenth Annual Run-a-Thon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Violet's favorite place to visit in the city?

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

3. How many rooms does the Squalor's home have?

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

5. Which of the Baudelaire orphans wear glasses?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator compare the Baudelaire children's experience at the Squalor's house as a mixed bag?

2. What is the significance of the trees that once made Dark Avenue "dark" being cut down once "light" is in?

3. Why don't Esme and Jerome Squalor believe the children that Gunther is really Count Olaf?

4. Why doesn't Jerome continue to stand up for the children against Esme when he obviously notices they are alarmed at Gunther's appearance?

5. What does the narrator mean when he states "...like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, and liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal"?

6. Why is the meaning of "nervous" and "anxious" important to the reader's understanding of the novel?

7. What is revealed about Esme when she comments that orphans are so "in" they ought to be in the In Auction?

8. Why does the narrator state the element of surprise won't be on the table of elements in a chemistry?

9. What is significant about the doorman's comments that all problems have a solution, and the solution is sometimes under the nose?

10. What does the Squalor's apartment say about their lives and their character?

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