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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which character is dressed in black riding boots, a pinstriped suit, and a monocle?
2. What does Count Olaf have on his ankle?
3. Each morning, who takes the children to places in town?
4. When Sunny is covered in the pinstripe clothes, what does Violet compare her to?
5. Who is the oldest of the Baudelaire orphans?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is revealed about Esme's character when she says, "Quickly, before anybody sees that this apartment is still dark!"
2. How does the atmosphere on Dark Avenue mirror the orphans' feelings in Chapter 1?
3. How does the author illustrate the differences between Esme and Jerome Squalor?
4. What is ironic about Sunny saying "Hansel" and "Gretel" when the children are trying to come up with a way to search the penthouse and not get lost?
5. How does the author reinforce the absurdity of the "what's in and what's out"?
6. What role does the scene at Café Salmonella play in the overall plot of the story?
7. What is the importance of the Baudelaire orphans' friends being named Quagmire?
8. Why don't Esme and Jerome Squalor believe the children that Gunther is really Count Olaf?
9. What is the importance of the Baudelaire orphans' new guardians being named Squalor?
10. What is the significance of the trees that once made Dark Avenue "dark" being cut down once "light" is in?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the importance of the Baudelaire's parents' deaths? How does this event develop the orphans' characters? Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
What is the symbolism of the Squalors? Explain how the author uses Esme's crazy demands and actions to reveal aspects of her character and aspects of her husband's character, Jerome. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Acceptance and rejection are major themes in "The Ersatz Elevator." Choose one of the characters (Gunther, Violet, Sunny, Klaus, Jerome or Esme Squalor) and analyze how he/she reacts to the acts of acceptance and rejection throughout the story. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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