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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the children learn has been forecast to hit the lake in a few days?
(a) Flash flood
(b) Tornado
(c) Hurricane
(d) Hail storm

2. What color is the carpet and bed spreads in the Baudelaires' bedroom?
(a) Sea foam green
(b) Blue
(c) White
(d) Red

3. 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?
(a) Demise
(b) Eavesdropping
(c) Surprise
(d) Character

4. What does Aunt Josephine have covering the stove and oven in the kitchen for safety?
(a) Blankets
(b) Steel cages
(c) Pillows
(d) White sheets

5. What does Aunt Josephine say that Captain Sham is while they eat dinner in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Tasty
(b) Easy to talk to
(c) Handsome
(d) Charming

6. What does Mr. Poe tell the children Aunt Josephina has recently lost?
(a) Her daughter
(b) Her husband
(c) Her dog
(d) Her son

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

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

9. What does Josephine say is her greatest joy in life?
(a) Prozak
(b) Grammer
(c) Math
(d) Punctuation

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

11. What is Klaus' greatest joy in life?
(a) Getting away from Count Olaf
(b) Reading
(c) Not eating Peppermints
(d) Drawing

12. What would happen to Violet if she ate Mr. Poe's candy?
(a) Vomit
(b) Break out into hives
(c) Faint
(d) Begin to have trouble breathing

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

14. What do the Baudelaire children feel as they walk home?
(a) Abandoned
(b) Doom
(c) Helpless
(d) Forgotten

15. What does Klaus tell Violet she is being while he is going over the note that Aunt Josephine left?
(a) Ignorant
(b) Obtuse
(c) Stupid
(d) Blind

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happened to the children's previous guardian, Uncle Monty?

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

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?

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