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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the children say Aunt Josephine has a chance?
(a) There is a buoy near by
(b) She is away from the Leeches
(c) She is a strong swimmer
(d) There are other boats out on the lake

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

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

4. What does Violet say she is trying to create?
(a) A homemade horn
(b) Fire
(c) A motor
(d) A Leech repellant

5. What does Sunny do while her siblings are trying to convince Mr. Poe that Aunt Josephine may still be alive?
(a) Gets into the water
(b) Bites Captain Sham's peg leg
(c) Goes over to a sail boat
(d) Gets into Mr. Poe's car

6. What message has Klaus been able to get out of Aunt Josephine's letter?
(a) Captain Sham's Boat
(b) Leeches
(c) Curdled Cave
(d) Ike's home

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

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

9. Which of the Baudelaire children goes in after the keys to the sailboat?
(a) Klaus
(b) All three of them
(c) Sunny
(d) Violet

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

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

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

13. What does Josephine say that Count Olaf told her he would do if she didn't give the children over to his care?
(a) Force her to use the stove
(b) Feed her to the leeches
(c) Drown her in the lake
(d) Make her disappear

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

15. What is the creature on the docks doing as the Baudelaires sail away.
(a) Shaking its fist in the air
(b) Going into the shack
(c) Screaming
(d) Still trying to get up

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus tell Josephine will be coming to the Cave that frightens her enough to make her agree to leave?

2. Who is waiting at the dock when the children arrive with Captain Sham?

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

4. What does Aunt Josephine tell the children she ate just before they arrived?

5. What does Violet take with her to the restaurant?

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