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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 is Aunt Josephine afraid the door mat could do?
(a) Make the house look ugly
(b) Hold deadly bugs
(c) Grow a fungus
(d) Cause someone to trip

2. What does Aunt Josephine say that Klaus is being?
(a) Incorrigible
(b) Incongruous
(c) Impossible
(d) Impertinent

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

4. What do the children decide must be true about the letter in Chapter 5?
(a) It is a map
(b) It will never been seen by anyone else
(c) It was written by Count Olaf
(d) It is worthless

5. What does Aunt Josephine say that Captain Sham is while they eat dinner in the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Handsome
(b) Easy to talk to
(c) Charming
(d) Tasty

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Poe say is a very serious charge?

3. What color is the carpet and bed spreads in the Baudelaires' bedroom?

4. What does Klaus say about the letter Aunt Josephine wrote?

5. Why is Aunt Josephine scared to drive in cars?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aunt Josephine correct on Captain Sham's business card?

2. Describe how the Baudelaire children keep things in perspective in Chapter 3.

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

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

5. Describe the way that Aunt Josephine shows the children around the house?

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

7. Describe the scene in Chapter 4 where Violet answers the phone.

8. What is said in Chapter 6 when Klaus says the note has been forged?

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

10. Why do the children think that Mr. Poe will not be any help to them in the beginning of Chapter 5 after Mr. Poe has been called about Aunt Josephine's death?

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