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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. According to Mr. Squalor, what is his wife most attentive to?
(a) What's happening in the building.
(b) What's in and what's out.
(c) What's out.
(d) What's going on down the street.

2. After arriving home from Café Salmonella, what kinds of noises do the children hear as they climb the stairs to the penthouse?
(a) The sounds of people singing.
(b) The sounds of people wrestling.
(c) The sounds of people eating.
(d) The sounds of people going to bed.

3. While climbing the staircase, how often do Klaus and Violet take turns carrying Sunny?
(a) Every three floors.
(b) Every five floors.
(c) Every ten floors.
(d) Every other floor.

4. During dinner at Café Salmonella, what makes the Baudelaire children lose their appetites?
(a) The dessert.
(b) The smell of fish.
(c) The thought of Gunther alone with their guardian.
(d) Too much pink flavorful fish.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Jerome, what is a xenophobe?

3. What is Klaus's favorite place to visit in the city?

4. What does Esme Squalor do for a living?

5. How old is the oldest Baudelaire orphan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Esme reject her husband's idea to give the In Auction money to a good cause?

2. Why does Esme act strangely when Klaus asks her if Gunther took the elevator down from the penthouse?

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

4. What role does the scene at Café Salmonella play in the overall plot of the story?

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

6. What is ironic about Mr. Poe telling the children about the staircase, "it's all uphill from here"?

7. What is the importance of the Baudelaire orphans' new guardians being named Squalor?

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

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

10. What is the importance of the doorman's strange clothing?

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