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

2. What do the Baudelaires find at the end of the hallway once they'd gone down the elevator shaft?
(a) A cul-de-sac.
(b) A red herring.
(c) Another cage.
(d) Count Olaf.

3. What does Isadora Quagmire have in her notebook?
(a) Poems about Olaf's plans.
(b) Notes on plants.
(c) Drawings of Count Olaf.
(d) A poem for Violet.

4. What does Sunny suggest they do to escape from the elevator shaft?
(a) That they call for help.
(b) That they use the net to escape.
(c) That she use her teeth to climb up.
(d) That they drop down to the bottom.

5. When the Baudelaires arrive at the In Auction, what lot are the people bidding on?
(a) Lot #5.
(b) Lot #46.
(c) Lot #50.
(d) Lot #49.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Esme yell down to the children after they decide they are okay?

2. According to the narrator, what is a good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting?

3. What is the title of Lot #50 of the In Auction?

4. What does Gunther leave that contains information the Baudelaires can use to stop him?

5. What does Duncan Quagmire have in his notebook?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. What is the red herring in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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

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

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