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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Violet do with their coats when they arrive back at Josephine's house?
(a) Blocks the front door with them
(b) Throws them in the closet
(c) Hangs them on the back of the chairs
(d) Drops them on the floor

2. What does Aunt Josephine tell the children she ate just before they arrived?
(a) Apple
(b) Fruit cocktail
(c) Banana
(d) Kiwi

3. What does Sunny abandon her post at the tiller to do?
(a) Row
(b) Knock back the Leeches
(c) Bail out the water
(d) Hold down Josephine

4. What does Violet need from Josephine to make her invention work?
(a) Bobby pins
(b) Hair net
(c) Earrings
(d) Shawl

5. What does Aunt Josephine NOT say that she will do in order to disappear?
(a) Get plastic surgery
(b) Dye her hair
(c) Change her name
(d) Wear colored contact lenses

6. What do Klaus and Violet tell Mr. Poe that they have to go do?
(a) Sleep
(b) Save Aunt Josephine
(c) Throw food in the water for the Leeches
(d) Go back to the cave

7. 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) Boating Captains
(d) Hurricanes

8. When does Mr. Poe say he doesn't drink?
(a) Banking hours
(b) While he eats
(c) Weekday
(d) In front of children

9. Why does Klaus say rowing won't help?
(a) The leeches are climbling up the oars
(b) The leeches will eat the oars
(c) Josephine is too scared to row
(d) The leeches are slowing down the oars

10. Why does Captain Sham no one will believe Josephine?
(a) She is a liar
(b) Everyone knows she is a nut
(c) She is dead
(d) She is too scared to tell anyone

11. How do the children free the sailboat from the dock before the creature gets to them?
(a) Sunny bites it
(b) Klaus had kept a letter opener
(c) The rope broke free
(d) Violet had a pair of scissors on her

12. What did the children do when a car passed them as they made their way to the Fickle Ferry?
(a) Run behind houses
(b) Lay down in the ditches
(c) Stick out their thumbs
(d) Hide in the bushes

13. Why does Klaus say the Leeches probably won't show up?
(a) Bananas don't smell very strong
(b) They are moving too fast
(c) Leeches sleep at night
(d) The hurricane scared them away

14. What does Larry, the waiter, recommend since the occasion is sad?
(a) Happy Meal
(b) Cheer-up cheeseburgers
(c) Slap Happy Biscuits
(d) Shake Your Sillies Out Milk Shakes

15. What does Violet do while they sail?
(a) Paddles
(b) Pulls the ropes to catch the wind
(c) Secures Sunny in a life jacket
(d) Steers

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Violet do to help her hives?

2. What does Count Olaf's accomplice pick Violet up by?

3. What does Josephine say that Count Olaf told her he would do if she didn't give the children over to his care?

4. Since its hands are full with Sunny and Violet what does the accomplice use to stop Klaus?

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

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