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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Violet take with her to the restaurant?
(a) Sunny's rattle
(b) Gears from the toy trains
(c) Her telephone invention
(d) Peppermints

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

3. What happens when Klaus kicks at a leech that managed to get into the boat?
(a) It latches onto his shoe
(b) It crawls up his leg
(c) It flies into Josephine's lap
(d) It splatters

4. Why does Violet say she and Sunny didn't take a baking soda bath?
(a) The lights went out because of the hurricane
(b) There was no hot water
(c) Aunt Josephine didn't keep baking soda
(d) They decided they look good in hives

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

6. What does Josephine say she will help the children do after she catches her breath?
(a) Bring in their luggage
(b) Run away
(c) Go to the police
(d) Sail back to shore

7. What does the narrator say Captain Sham resembled while they were at the restaurant?
(a) Snake
(b) Earth worm
(c) Chameleon
(d) Tiger

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

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

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

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

12. What costume is the waiter wearing at the restaurant?
(a) Gorilla
(b) Clown
(c) Mouse with a top hat
(d) Acrobat

13. What fancy word does Klaus say that Aunt Josephine misspelled?
(a) Flargalhaggen
(b) Testament
(c) Desperate
(d) Dowager

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

15. What do the leeches do when they become frustrated?
(a) Ram the boat
(b) Attacking the tiller
(c) Leave
(d) Begin bitting small holes in the hull

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sign do the children see as they get to the Fickle Ferry docks?

3. What wakes up Count Olaf's accomplice?

4. What does Klaus explain that he believes Aunt Josephine left in the note?

5. Why does Captain Sham no one will believe Josephine?

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