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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 Stephano do during the entire dinner meal?
(a) Takes food from Sunny's plate
(b) Holds his knife under the table
(c) Keeps one foot on top of Violets
(d) Has one hand on Klaus' chair

2. What does Dr. Montgomery say is the reason he never found a wife and started a family?
(a) Never could find a wife who liked snakes
(b) Slipped his mind
(c) Never found the time
(d) Too scared of women

3. Where does Klaus suggest he could get a job?
(a) School
(b) Horseradish factory
(c) Library
(d) Museum

4. What does Klaus say that Count Olaf puts a damper on?
(a) Living
(b) Fun
(c) Stove
(d) Imagination

5. What does Uncle Monty do when Sunny and the Incredibly Deadly Viper bite each other?
(a) Throw up
(b) Laugh
(c) Scream
(d) Sneeze

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Alaskan Cow Lizard produce?

2. Dissonant Toad is known for imitating what?

3. What has Violet been trying to think up an invention for?

4. Who does Mr. Poe tell the children they are going to go live with?

5. What object does the narrator use for an example saying he should have brought this item to avoid disastrous results?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Dr. Montgomery call the children and what is the explanation he gives for being so excited?

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

4. What are the children doing in chapter five when they go up to their bed rooms after dinner?

5. What tasks does Dr. Montgomery say must be done before they leave for Peru?

6. Describe Lousy Lane that the children drive down to their new home in chapter one?

7. In chapter four what characters do the children think about in regards to Olaf's acting troupe that travel with him?

8. 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?

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

10. What does the narrator explain that Klaus will regret later on in his life?

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