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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Violet decide they must do in order to get to Aunt Josephine?
(a) Go to the police
(b) Swim
(c) Steal a boat
(d) Find a car

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

3. What does the narrator say the library room shook like?
(a) Jello
(b) Belly dancer
(c) Maracas
(d) Fat on a Christmas ham

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

5. What do the children begin to do while steering the sail boat?
(a) Laugh
(b) Cry
(c) Sleep
(d) Sing

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

7. What does the narrator say that Count Olaf's accomplice held Sunny up like?
(a) An ice cream cone
(b) A prize
(c) A dirty sock
(d) A sucker

8. What does Klaus continue to do while they sail across the lake?
(a) Secure the ropes
(b) Check the compass
(c) Check the atlas
(d) Look at the life jackets

9. Who comes to rescue the children after seeing the fire?
(a) The creature
(b) The harbor patrol
(c) Captain Sham
(d) Mr. Poe

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

11. What color light do the children see at dark?
(a) Bright white
(b) Blue
(c) Lavendar
(d) Yellow

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

13. What does Captain Sham say Josephine jumping out the window would have been?
(a) Sensible thing
(b) Easiest option
(c) Quickest way for her to go
(d) Most fortunate

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

15. What does Josephine do that prompts Captain Sham to push her overboard?
(a) Stops him from hurting the children
(b) Sneezes on him
(c) Hugs him
(d) Corrects his grammar

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Violet do with their coats when they arrive back at Josephine's house?

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

3. What happens when Klaus kicks at a leech that managed to get into the boat?

4. Where does Captain Sham say that he and Josephine had met while he is telling Mr. Poe the story?

5. What does Klaus say he had never noticed before?

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