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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 the narrator say that he can tell the reader?
(a) Mr. Poe won't be any help
(b) The worst is yet to come
(c) They are in far worse danger than Aunt Josephine
(d) Aunt Josephine isn't dead

2. What does Violet see that reminds her of Aunt Josephine and how Aunt Josephine had been afraid of it while they go to answer the door?
(a) The telephone
(b) The doormat
(c) The bed covers
(d) The radiator

3. What does Aunt Josephine say that Captain Sham has planned for the children?
(a) A party
(b) A surprise
(c) A fabulous dinner
(d) A night on the town

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) I look like a street walker!
(d) Look! It fits!

5. What does Aunt Josephine say is what has kept her looking youthful?
(a) A love for gammar
(b) Being cautious about all things
(c) Living by the lake
(d) Not having any children

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus find attached to the door?

2. What does Aunt Josephine say the radiator might do?

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

4. What does Captain Sham hand Josephine?

5. What does Klaus tell Violet she could do with the note?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. What do the children do after Aunt Josephine sends them to their room in Chapter 4?

10. Describe what Klaus says in the beginning of Chapter 5 about the note that Aunt Josephine wrote.

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