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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 do the children have for dinner with Aunt Josephine in the beginning of Chapter 3 when the children are trying to keep things in perspective?
(a) Cold oatmeal
(b) Dry creal and water
(c) Orange juice and untoasted bread
(d) Stale muffins

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

3. What does Aunt Josephine say is definite proof that Captain Sham isn't Count Olaf?
(a) Aunt Josephine called the psychic network
(b) His business card
(c) His story about loosing his leg
(d) His boats

4. What does Klaus say that he hopes Violet is clever enough to do?
(a) Run away
(b) Get them out of their situation
(c) Find Josephine's body
(d) Build a fire

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus suggest might be the plan of Count Olaf?

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

3. What does Aunt Josephine say that Klaus is being?

4. What does Violet say she cannot wait to do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the bedroom that Josephine gives the children to stay in.

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

3. Describe the scene in Chapter 1 when Mr. Poe hands the children the bag of candies.

4. Describe the children and Aunt Josephine's trip to town in Chapter 3.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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