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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aunt Josephine say that her mother-in-law had in addition to only one eyebrow?
(a) Eleven toes
(b) One ear
(c) Four fingers
(d) Two teeth

2. What does Mr. Poe give the Baudelaire children?
(a) Butterscotch
(b) Ice cream
(c) Perpermints
(d) Toffee bits

3. What does Klaus say he still has nightmares about?
(a) The tattoo on Olaf's ankle
(b) Count Olaf's stove
(c) The thought of being taken back to Olaf
(d) The play the children had to take part in with Olaf

4. What is the name of the restaurant with balloons in the window and neon lights?
(a) Anxious Clown
(b) Circus Climate
(c) Salty Sea Dog
(d) WhatsaMatterU

5. What would happen to Violet if she ate Mr. Poe's candy?
(a) Break out into hives
(b) Begin to have trouble breathing
(c) Vomit
(d) Faint

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the children's previous guardian, Uncle Monty?

2. What do the children have for breakfast with Aunt Josephine in the beginning of Chapter 3 when the children are trying to keep things in perspective?

3. What is Josephine afraid will happen if the doorknobs are touched?

4. Where does Mr. Poe say they are meeting Captain Sham?

5. What does Aunt Josephine say that they should do for Captain Sham?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children find when they go into the library after finding the note in Chapter 4?

2. What does the narrator explain at the end of Chapter 5 in relation to the children crying?

3. What does Mr. Poe say about the children letting their imaginations run away with them?

4. Describe how the town looks as the children drive through it for the first time on their way to Josephine's house.

5. What do they find when they look at the shopping list of Aunt Josephine's next to the suicide note?

6. Describe the scene when the Baudelaire children and Aunt Josephine are walking home from the market in Chapter 3?

7. What disguise is Count Olaf wearing when the children meet him in the store in Chapter 3?

8. What do the children do after Aunt Josephine sends them to their room in Chapter 4?

9. What happens in Chapter 3 when the Baudelaire children are trying to explain to Aunt Josephine that Captain Sham is really Count Olaf?

10. Describe the library as it is seen for the first time in Chapter 2.

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