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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 the doorman's real job?
(a) A salesman.
(b) A basketball hero.
(c) An actor.
(d) A mayor.

2. What does Violet ask the man who is standing outside the trapdoor?
(a) For him to move out of the sunlight.
(b) For directions to Veblen Hall.
(c) For his name.
(d) If she could borrow his cell phone.

3. What does Esme believe about Count Olaf's intelligence?
(a) He's dimwitted.
(b) He's "in."
(c) He's an idiot.
(d) He's a genius.

4. What does Klaus say about myths?
(a) They're entertaining but not very helpful.
(b) They're boring.
(c) They're fun.
(d) They're helpful.

5. What does Violet say when she reaches the bottom of the ersatz rope a second time?
(a) We're here to save you!
(b) Here we are!
(c) They're gone!
(d) I'm back!

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't the Baudelaires climb out of the elevator shaft initially?

2. Where does Klaus believe the passageway has placed them under?

3. What does Duncan try to tell Violet in his notebook?

4. Who is a friend of the Baudelaires standing with Jerome at the In Auction?

5. Where does Violet tell her siblings to meet her once they reach the top of the ersatz rope?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Violet plan to rescue the Quagmires from their cage?

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

3. Why is moving down the ersatz rope more difficult the second time for the Baudelaires?

4. How does Klaus convince Jerome to help them find the Quagmires without him knowing?

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

6. What is odd about the doorman making bids at the In Auction?

7. Why does Esme continue to insist that Gunther left the penthouse apartment?

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

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

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