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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Violet tell Klaus they will say they are?
(a) Escaping a lunatic
(b) The Browns
(c) Lost children looking for home
(d) The Jones children

2. What does Klaus say the word Ike in Josephine's letter was supposed to be?
(a) Bike
(b) Ide
(c) I'll
(d) Ice

3. Who is waiting at the dock when the children arrive with Captain Sham?
(a) The Fickle Ferry captain
(b) Mr. Poe
(c) The creature
(d) The police

4. What does Violet say she thinks that she and her siblings should do?
(a) Go home and lie down
(b) Go to the hospital
(c) Sue the restaurant
(d) Got a doctor

5. What does Count Olaf's accomplice step on that causes it to fall?
(a) Violet's shoe
(b) Lake atlas
(c) Sunny's rattle
(d) A slick puddle

6. What books does Violet say they need in order to find out what Josephine meant by the message left hidden in her note?
(a) Lake Lachrymose
(b) Lachrymose Leeches
(c) Hurricanes
(d) Boating Captains

7. What does the narrator say the sound of the Leeches was like?
(a) A vibration
(b) Screetching metal
(c) A low hum
(d) Whispering

8. What does Captain Sham say Aunt Josephine is going to be joining?
(a) The wackos at the state institution
(b) Mr. Poe
(c) The Leeches
(d) Ike

9. What is Sunny's job on the sailboat?
(a) Hold the atlas open to the right page
(b) Bite the ropes that hold the life raft to the sail boat
(c) Steer with the tiller
(d) Shine a light in the right direction

10. What does Captain Sham say the Baudelaire children will be in just a few short hours
(a) In his clutches
(b) Lost at sea
(c) On their way to Peru
(d) The Sham children

11. Where does Captain Sham say that he and Josephine had met while he is telling Mr. Poe the story?
(a) While at a theater
(b) At the Lake
(c) Cooking school
(d) In the grocery store

12. What does Mr. Poe say that Captain Sham will have to do before the children will be put into his care?
(a) Put the children into a good school
(b) Go before a judge
(c) Show Mr. Poe his house
(d) Sign some papers

13. What happens to Sunny when she eats a peppermint?
(a) She starts having trouble breathing
(b) She breaks out in hives and her tongue swells up
(c) Her tongue swells up
(d) She breaks out into hives

14. What sign do the children see as they get to the Fickle Ferry docks?
(a) No children without adult supervision
(b) No Shirts, No Shoes, No service
(c) Open
(d) Closed

15. What does Aunt Josephine NOT tell Captain Sham?
(a) She will hide herself away forever
(b) He can have the children
(c) He can have their money
(d) She will work for him

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the children begin to do while steering the sail boat?

2. What do Klaus and Violet tell Mr. Poe that they have to go do?

3. Where do the children intend to get a boat to go find Aunt Josephine?

4. What does Klaus continue to do while they sail across the lake?

5. What did the children do when a car passed them as they made their way to the Fickle Ferry?

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