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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 Aunt Josephine say Ike had when he answered the phone?
(a) Special glove
(b) A good laugh at Josephine
(c) Insulated shoes
(d) A rubber ear protector

2. What does Count Olaf's smile turn into when Aunt Josephine turns her back?
(a) Smirk
(b) Growl
(c) Sneer
(d) Lagh

3. What does Aunt Josephine say that they should do for Captain Sham?
(a) Take him to a town dance
(b) Go wash his boats
(c) Invite him to dinner
(d) Introduce him around town

4. What does Violet offer to do to make Josephine feel better about the Telephone?
(a) Built one out of rubber
(b) Put in another ground wire
(c) Throw it out the window
(d) Show her how it works

5. In the letter Aunt Josephine leaves who does she leave the children to?
(a) Count Olaf
(b) The local orphanage
(c) Mr. Poe
(d) Captain Sham

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Poe say is a very serious charge?

2. What does Sunny suggest might be the plan of Count Olaf?

3. What does Aunt Josephine say she will have to teach Sunny?

4. Why don't the Baudelaire children eat the candy given to them by Mr. Poe?

5. Where are the Baudelaire orphans at the very beginning of Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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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