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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 is Violet's idiosyncrasy?
(a) Tying up her hair with a ribbon when she is inventing something.
(b) Tying up her hair and crossing her eyes.
(c) Tying up her hair and praying.
(d) Tying up her hair and screaming at people.

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

3. Where does Violet decide to hide the ersatz rope?
(a) Under Sunny's bed.
(b) Under her bed.
(c) In Klaus's books.
(d) Under her pillow.

4. Who do the Baudelaires tell about the V.F.D. after their discovery in the In Auction catalog?
(a) Esme.
(b) The doorman.
(c) Jerome.
(d) Mr. Poe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children hear over their heads as they stumble around the passageway in the dark?

2. What does Esme make the Baudelaires carry up to their penthouse apartment?

3. What does the narrator claim is the greatest myth in the world?

4. What does Violet find on her extra fluffy pillow when she returns to her room?

5. What condition do the Baudelaires find the Quagmires?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is unique and strangely sad about the Squalor library?

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

3. What does Klaus mean when he tells Violet the time wasn't ripe for her invention?

4. During the Baudelaires' climb back up to the penthouse, they are encased in darkness. What is symbolic about their climb in the shadowy dark?

5. What is the red herring in Chapter 10?

6. What is the importance of the doorman winning the big, red scarlet fish statue?

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

8. 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?

9. What is the meaning of the red herring statue which is in Lot #48?

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

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