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

2. What does Klaus suggest they do in order to get away from Count Olaf?

3. What does Mr. Poe warn Klaus in the car not to do to Dr. Montgomery in regards to Montgomery's name?

4. What does Violet explain Sunny likes?

5. What does Dr. Montgomery say is the reason he never found a wife and started a family?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Mr. Poe and the children's conversation when they tell Mr. Poe goodbye and walk him to the car in chapter two.

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

3. What do the children find when the open the door of the Reptile Room?

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

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

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

7. Describe the situation when Dr. Montgomery tells the children to go find a room in his house?

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

10. What do the children discuss in Violet's room in chapter six after they are done at the movies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator tells the reader before hand that Uncle Monty dies.

1) Is this true foreshadowing or has the narrator given away a key piece in the story? Explain.

2) What other way could the reader have realized that Uncle Monty was destined to die if the narrator hadn't exposed it?

Essay Topic 2

What role do the adults take on in the story? In what ways is it a typical role? In what way is it atypical?

In what ways are the Baudelaire children's role typical? Not typical?

Essay Topic 3

The series is call A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS. What events in the story could be called fortunate rather than unfortunate? Why do the unfortunate events seem to overshadow the others?

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