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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aunt Josephine say that they should do for Captain Sham?
(a) Introduce him around town
(b) Invite him to dinner
(c) Go wash his boats
(d) Take him to a town dance

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

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

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

5. What does Violet suggest they use as a sample of Aunt Josephine's handwriting?
(a) Her grammar notes
(b) Her diary
(c) Shopping list
(d) Her last letter to Ike

6. What does Aunt Josephine say that Captain Sham has planned for the children?
(a) A night on the town
(b) A fabulous dinner
(c) A surprise
(d) A party

7. What sound do the Baudelaire children hear while trying to think up a plan?
(a) Breaking glass
(b) Josephine scream
(c) The burglar alarm cans
(d) The stove exploding

8. What does Josephine say that the tin cans in the room are for?
(a) To put sea shells
(b) Burglars
(c) To make music
(d) To keep your toys in

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

10. What does Klaus say he still has nightmares about?
(a) The thought of being taken back to Olaf
(b) The tattoo on Olaf's ankle
(c) Count Olaf's stove
(d) The play the children had to take part in with Olaf

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

12. What is Josephine afraid will happen if the doorknobs are touched?
(a) The door will fall on you
(b) They will shatter
(c) You will get a blister
(d) You will sprain your wrist

13. What is Aunt Josephine afraid the sofa will do?
(a) Swallow someone
(b) Completely throw off the feng-shui
(c) Break through the floor
(d) Fall on someone

14. What happened to the children's previous guardian, Uncle Monty?
(a) Was committed
(b) Died in his sleep
(c) Murdered
(d) Bitten by a snake

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children have for dinner their first night in Josephine's house?

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

3. What does Aunt Josephine have covering the stove and oven in the kitchen for safety?

4. What is the name of the restaurant with balloons in the window and neon lights?

5. What does Count Olaf say that Violet and Aunt Josephine look like when he first meets Aunt Josephine in Chapter 3?

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