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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 rains down on the children from the ceiling?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Glitter.
(c) Cockroaches.
(d) Black ash.

2. Once the Baudelaires are successful with opening the trapdoor, where does the corridor end up?
(a) The Fish District.
(b) The Stationary District.
(c) Veblen Hall.
(d) The spot where their house burned.

3. What three things do Klaus and Sunny discover that Violet believes will help free the Quagmires?
(a) Sticks.
(b) Fire tongs.
(c) Saws.
(d) Baseball bat.

4. Why is the climb up the ersatz rope less scary than going down it for the Baudelaire children?
(a) They know how to climb the ersatz rope.
(b) They know what awaits at the top of the rope.
(c) They know Jerome would help them.
(d) They know their friends are safe.

5. What do the Quagmires believe the Baudelaires to be at first?
(a) Three ghosts.
(b) A funny vision.
(c) Hallucination and a phantasm.
(d) A nightmare.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Isadora Quagmire have in her notebook?

2. What is Klaus's idiosyncrasy?

3. What is the doorman's real job?

4. After the first series of curves, what do the children hear above their heads?

5. After pushing the Up button on the elevator, what does Esme do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Sunny's character during Chapter 10?

2. What is symbolic about the Baudelaire children rising up from the ashes?

3. What is Count Olaf's plan to move Quagmires out of the city and to get his hands on their sapphires?

4. How is the word "ersatz" used in Chapter 7?

5. The gentleman at the Baudelaire mansion fire claims that the site is haunted. What is the significance of him calling the Baudelaire ghosts?

6. What do the children realize about Jerome Squalor as they reach the Veblen Hall and are confronted with Gunther?

7. What is significant about the fact that the Baudelaire children have been in the darkness for so long their eyes take a long time to get used to the light?

8. Why is the definition of "idiosyncrasy" necessary for the reader to understand before reading the rest of Chapter 7?

9. What is revealed about Esme Squalor in Chapter 10?

10. What is symbolic about Klaus's declaration that they had reached a "dead end" at the end of the passageway?

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