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

2. What does Captain Sham say happened to his leg?
(a) He fell under a boat propeller
(b) He lost a bet
(c) It got blown off in the war
(d) Lachrymose Leeches ate it

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

4. What present does Violet get from Aunt Josephine?
(a) Make-up
(b) A sewing kit
(c) A dolly
(d) An inventor's kit

5. What does Aunt Josephine tell Captain Sham the children seem to have lost along with their grammar?
(a) Sense of humor
(b) Manners
(c) Common sense
(d) Kindness

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Josephine say she hopes will happen soon?

2. What is the name of the clothing store the taxi cab passes?

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

4. What does Aunt Josephine say she is eager to try a recipe for?

5. Who is on their way to the children since Aunt Josephine is dead?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In the beginning of Chapter 4 what is the conversation that takes place around the dinner table?

8. How does Josephine describe what happened to Ike in Chapter 2?

9. Describe why Josephine refused to come get the children as it is described in Chapter 1.

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

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