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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Josephine say that Violet is for answering the door?
(a) Stupid
(b) Brave
(c) Uneducated
(d) Silly

2. What does Aunt Josephine talk about the whole way home?
(a) The children's lack of manners
(b) Captain Sham
(c) Chilled cucumber soup
(d) Leeches

3. What does Klaus say they will do rather than live with Captain Sham?
(a) Go back to the bank
(b) Run away
(c) Go to the orphanage
(d) Join the circus

4. What is Violet sent off in search of?
(a) Coconut
(b) Cucumbers
(c) Limes
(d) Tomatoes

5. How do the children free the sailboat from the dock before the creature gets to them?
(a) Klaus had kept a letter opener
(b) Sunny bites it
(c) Violet had a pair of scissors on her
(d) The rope broke free

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children learn has been forecast to hit the lake in a few days?

2. What does the narrator say he once had cards made up to say?

3. What does Josephine say that the tin cans in the room are for?

4. Why does Josephine not meet the children on the dock?

5. What does Klaus see on the way to answer the door that reminded him of Aunt Josephine and how she had been afraid of it?

(see the answer key)

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