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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 does the narrator tell the reader can be imagined that all these unfortunate events are if they would like to put the book down?
(a) Result of a bad meal
(b) A bad dream
(c) A figment of the imagination
(d) A sick joke

2. What is the painting of that the children first see in the house?
(a) A viper hissing
(b) A boa constrictor
(c) Two snakes entwined
(d) A snake in a basket

3. What does Uncle Monty say that Stephano will name the snake if he is able to steal it?
(a) Count Olaf's Pet
(b) Stephano's Snake
(c) XYZ Reptilian Genome
(d) The Stephano Find

4. What sort of factory does the Grim River circle?
(a) Oil chemical
(b) Fish paste
(c) Diaper
(d) Horseradish

5. What does Mr. Poe say that Dr. Montgomery has done that gives him a great many stories to tell?
(a) Gone on adventures
(b) Traveled
(c) Read
(d) Experimented

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus say that Count Olaf puts a damper on?

2. What question does Mr. Poe ask of Dr. Montgomery while they are eating?

3. What reason does Mr. Poe give for not being able to take the children's luggage with them?

4. What are most of the books in Dr. Montgomery's library written about?

5. What does Violet say they are old enough to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the animals and things in the Reptile Room.

2. Describe the first sight of Dr. Montgomery's house that the children get in chapter one?

3. What does Count Olaf tell the children that convinces them to start calling him Stephano?

4. Describe the different deadly snakes that Dr. Montgomery explains to the children he has and what they can do as described in chapter three.

5. What does Count Olaf say in chapter four that makes Violet pick up his suit case and carry it in the house?

6. Describe the scene which Dr. Montgomery wishes to happen when he unveils the Incredibly Deadly Viper as he describes in it chapter three?

7. What are Violet and Klaus doing while they are riding in the car to their new home?

8. What does Mr. Poe tell the children in chapter one as they are walking up to the door?

9. In chapter one how is the life of the Baudelaire children summarized up to the point where they are driving to their new home with the unknown relative?

10. How is the night described in the beginning of chapter five?

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