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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. What two names does Sunny yell out to help her siblings navigate the Squalor's penthouse apartment?
(a) Jack and Jill.
(b) James Bond.
(c) Hansel and Gretel.
(d) Rand McNally.

2. How did the Baudelaire orphans' parents die?
(a) In an airplane crash.
(b) In a fire.
(c) In a train crash.
(d) In a car wreck.

3. What is the name of the street where the orphans will be staying?
(a) Main Street.
(b) Levin Parkway.
(c) Spencer Avenue.
(d) Dark Avenue.

4. What do the Baudelaire children believe Gunther will try to do?
(a) Hurt them.
(b) Get his hands on their fortune.
(c) Harm the Squalors.
(d) Kidnap them.

5. According to Jerome, what is a xenophobe?
(a) A person who is afraid of salmon.
(b) A person who is afraid of eyebrows.
(c) A person who is afraid of foreigners.
(d) A person who is afraid of spiders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dessert do the children have at Café Salmonella?

2. Who are the orphans' new guardians?

3. Who is the oldest of the Baudelaire orphans?

4. What is the one thing Violet cannot find in her bedroom at the Squalor's penthouse apartment?

5. According to the narrator, which of the two elements he mentions is a gas?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the atmosphere on Dark Avenue mirror the orphans' feelings in Chapter 1?

3. Why is it important to know that Jerome Squalor could have adopted the Baudelaire children earlier but did not because orphans were not "in"?

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 is significant about the Squalor library and its inventory?

6. What is the importance of the Baudelaire orphans' friends being named Quagmire?

7. How does the author reinforce the absurdity of the "what's in and what's out"?

8. 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"?

9. How does the author illustrate the differences between Esme and Jerome Squalor?

10. What is symbolic of Jerome sliding down the stairs and his laughter growing fainter the further he descends?

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