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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 sofa will do?
(a) Fall on someone
(b) Swallow someone
(c) Completely throw off the feng-shui
(d) Break through the floor

2. What does Josephine say that Violet is for answering the door?
(a) Brave
(b) Uneducated
(c) Silly
(d) Stupid

3. What does Klaus tell Violet she is being while he is going over the note that Aunt Josephine left?
(a) Obtuse
(b) Ignorant
(c) Stupid
(d) Blind

4. What is the name of the clothing store the taxi cab passes?
(a) Second times a charm! Used clothing
(b) This looks great!
(c) Look! It fits!
(d) I look like a street walker!

5. What is Klaus' greatest joy in life?
(a) Reading
(b) Getting away from Count Olaf
(c) Not eating Peppermints
(d) Drawing

Short Answer Questions

1. In the letter Aunt Josephine leaves who does she leave the children to?

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

3. What does Count Olaf's smile turn into when Aunt Josephine turns her back?

4. What does Klaus say they will do rather than live with Captain Sham?

5. What is Josephine afraid the telephone holds a threat off?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is said between the children in the beginning of Chapter 5 when they have an argument?

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

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

4. Describe the gifts that Aunt Josephine gives the children in Chapter 2?

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

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

7. Describe Josephine's house as the children first see it in Chapter 1.

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

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

10. What does the narrator explain in Chapter 1 about the children and the adventure that they are about to have?

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