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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Aunt Josephine afraid the door mat could do?
(a) Hold deadly bugs
(b) Cause someone to trip
(c) Grow a fungus
(d) Make the house look ugly

2. What does Klaus wish Mr. Poe had brought him rather than peppermints?
(a) A new shirt
(b) Something to read
(c) A hamburger
(d) A milk shake

3. What do the children have for dinner with Aunt Josephine in the beginning of Chapter 3 when the children are trying to keep things in perspective?
(a) Stale muffins
(b) Orange juice and untoasted bread
(c) Cold oatmeal
(d) Dry creal and water

4. Why is Aunt Josephine scared to drive in cars?
(a) Doors might get stuck
(b) They could blow up
(c) She had watched a movie where the car came to life
(d) The exhaust fumes were dangerous

5. What does Count Olaf say that Violet and Aunt Josephine look like when he first meets Aunt Josephine in Chapter 3?
(a) Twins
(b) Sisters
(c) Cousins
(d) Mother and daughter

6. What present does Violet get from Aunt Josephine?
(a) An inventor's kit
(b) A sewing kit
(c) A dolly
(d) Make-up

7. What does the narrator say he once had cards made up to say?
(a) He was an admiral in the French navy
(b) He was a door to door salesman
(c) He was a membery of the clergy
(d) He sold golf balls

8. What does Mr. Poe say even the most intelligent people in the world often need the help of?
(a) A handwritting analysist
(b) A banker
(c) A policeman
(d) A lawyer

9. Where does Mr. Poe say they are meeting Captain Sham?
(a) Park
(b) Restaurant
(c) Boating pier
(d) Hotel

10. What is Violet's greatest joy in life?
(a) Arithmatic
(b) Reading
(c) Writing
(d) Cutting hair

11. What does Violet say she cannot wait to do?
(a) Throw Captain Sham out the window
(b) Eat a hot meal
(c) Tear up the letter
(d) Tell Mr. Poe about Captain Sham

12. What does Violet tell Klaus he is being while Klaus is going over the note Aunt Josephine left?
(a) Ignorant
(b) Insufferable
(c) A pain in her butt
(d) Unbearable

13. What is Josephine's house attached to the hill by?
(a) Sheer luck
(b) Wood trusses
(c) Metal stilts
(d) Ropes and lattices

14. What does Aunt Josephine say that her mother-in-law had in addition to only one eyebrow?
(a) Eleven toes
(b) Two teeth
(c) Four fingers
(d) One ear

15. What does Klaus say that he hopes Violet is clever enough to do?
(a) Build a fire
(b) Get them out of their situation
(c) Run away
(d) Find Josephine's body

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus suggest might be the plan of Count Olaf?

2. What would happen to Klaus if he ate Mr. Poe's candy?

3. What plant does the narrator use as an example to tell about how the Baudelaire children feel in Chapter 5?

4. What does Mr. Poe say he needs to do in Chapter 6 after discovering that the note was in fact left by Aunt Josephine?

5. What does Klaus say they will do rather than live with Captain Sham?

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