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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the children get to Aunt Josephine's house?
(a) Hitch hike
(b) Bike
(c) Walk
(d) Taxi

2. What does Mr. Poe say the children should respect?
(a) Their parents' wishes
(b) Josephine's will
(c) Their elders
(d) Captain Sham

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

4. 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) Cold oatmeal
(c) Dry creal and water
(d) Orange juice and untoasted bread

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

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

7. What present does Klaus get from Aunt Josephine?
(a) Cow boy and indian set
(b) Army men
(c) Train set
(d) Model cars

8. What does Aunt Josephine say the radiator might do?
(a) Fall through the floor
(b) Explode
(c) Catch on fire
(d) Give them cancer

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

10. When does Mr. Poe say the children will be at Captain Sham's house?
(a) That night
(b) Within the hour
(c) Within the next week
(d) As soon as Josephine's affairs are straightened out

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

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

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

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

15. Why don't the Baudelaire children eat the candy given to them by Mr. Poe?
(a) They are too sad
(b) They have low blood sugar
(c) It is wet and moldy
(d) They are allergic

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say that he can tell the reader?

3. What do the children have for breakfast with Aunt Josephine in the beginning of Chapter 3 when the children are trying to keep things in perspective?

4. 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?

5. What does Klaus find attached to the door?

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