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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Baudelaire children and Aunt Josephine get to town in Chapter 3?
(a) Walk
(b) Horseback
(c) Take a cab
(d) Ride bikes

2. Who is on their way to the children since Aunt Josephine is dead?
(a) Captain Sham
(b) The coroner
(c) Mr. Poe
(d) The police

3. What does Mr. Poe give the Baudelaire children?
(a) Butterscotch
(b) Ice cream
(c) Perpermints
(d) Toffee bits

4. In the letter Aunt Josephine leaves who does she leave the children to?
(a) The local orphanage
(b) Mr. Poe
(c) Count Olaf
(d) Captain Sham

5. What color is the front door of Josephine's house?
(a) Polkadotted
(b) Black
(c) Red
(d) White

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

7. What does Aunt Josephine say she hopes will happen soon?
(a) See Captain Sham again
(b) Storm pass over
(c) Have chilled cucumber soup
(d) Children move out

8. What do the children decide must be true about the letter in Chapter 5?
(a) It is a map
(b) It is worthless
(c) It will never been seen by anyone else
(d) It was written by Count Olaf

9. Who does Violet say the person on the phone was asking for?
(a) Dr. Pain's Dentistry
(b) Hopalong Dancing School
(c) Whatsa-Matta-U University
(d) Seamore Butts

10. What does Josephine say that Ike, her dead husband, could do?
(a) Pat his head and rub his stomach
(b) Whistle while eating crackers
(c) Skip backwards
(d) Keep his eyes open while sneezing

11. What does the narrator say he had to escape with the cards he had made up?
(a) From a bad marriage
(b) A foreign country
(c) The clutches of Count Olaf
(d) An enemy's castle

12. 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?
(a) The Lake
(b) The sofa
(c) The stove
(d) The doorknob

13. What does the narrator say that he can tell the reader?
(a) Mr. Poe won't be any help
(b) The worst is yet to come
(c) They are in far worse danger than Aunt Josephine
(d) Aunt Josephine isn't dead

14. What plant does the narrator use as an example to tell about how the Baudelaire children feel in Chapter 5?
(a) Leechynut tree
(b) Smelly garbage plant
(c) Venus fly trap
(d) Oak tree

15. What does Captain Sham hand Josephine?
(a) His business card
(b) His address
(c) His phone number
(d) A cucumber

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Aunt Josephine define for the children thinking they don't know the meaning of it, while she is on the phone with Captain Sham?

2. What sound do the Baudelaire children hear while trying to think up a plan?

3. What does Count Olaf's smile turn into when Aunt Josephine turns her back?

4. What does Sunny get as a gift from Aunt Josephine?

5. What is Aunt Josephine afraid the door mat could do?

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