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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 Klaus wish Mr. Poe had brought him rather than peppermints?
(a) A milk shake
(b) A new shirt
(c) A hamburger
(d) Something to read

2. What does Klaus find attached to the door?
(a) A piece of paper with a thumbtack
(b) A map
(c) A poem with a piece of tape
(d) A code with a nail

3. How do the Baudelaire children and Aunt Josephine get to town in Chapter 3?
(a) Take a cab
(b) Ride bikes
(c) Walk
(d) Horseback

4. What color is the front door of Josephine's house?
(a) Red
(b) Polkadotted
(c) White
(d) Black

5. What does Captain Sham hand Josephine?
(a) His address
(b) His business card
(c) His phone number
(d) A cucumber

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. What does Klaus say that he hopes Violet is clever enough to do?

5. What happens during dinner?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say about business cards in Chapter 4?

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

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

5. 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?

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

7. What does Mr.Poe tell the children in Chapter 1 as he puts them in the taxi cab?

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

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

10. Describe what happens in Chapter six when Klaus looks at Aunt Josephine's suicide note again just before they leave to go meet Captain Sham.

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