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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 did the children do when a car passed them as they made their way to the Fickle Ferry?
(a) Lay down in the ditches
(b) Stick out their thumbs
(c) Hide in the bushes
(d) Run behind houses

2. What is Sunny's job on the sailboat?
(a) Hold the atlas open to the right page
(b) Shine a light in the right direction
(c) Bite the ropes that hold the life raft to the sail boat
(d) Steer with the tiller

3. What do the children begin to do while steering the sail boat?
(a) Laugh
(b) Cry
(c) Sing
(d) Sleep

4. What does Aunt Josephine ask the children not to do?
(a) Leave her behind
(b) Let her drown
(c) Throw her overboard
(d) Underestimate the Leeches

5. What does Klaus say the word Ike in Josephine's letter was supposed to be?
(a) Bike
(b) Ide
(c) Ice
(d) I'll

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Captain Sham resembled while they were at the restaurant?

2. Why does Klaus say rowing won't help?

3. What does Violet say she is trying to create?

4. What does Aunt Josephine NOT tell Captain Sham?

5. What does the narrator say that Count Olaf's accomplice held Sunny up like?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the realization that the children come to after talking with Aunt Josephine in the cave in Chapter 10?

2. Describe the scene in which the children look in the window of Captain Sham's sailboat rentals.

3. What does Larry the waiter offer the children to eat?

4. In the end of Chapter 11 what does the author mean by the phrase 'mixed blessing'?

5. Describe the scene at the end of Chapter 12 where the Baudelaire children, Captain Sham, and Mr. Poe are having their argument.

6. Describe how Aunt Josephine acts when the children first get her into the boat in Chapter 11?

7. What happens to the Baudelaire children when the eat the peppermints?

8. What does Klaus do in Chapter 8 when he enters the library room?

9. What does Josephine's library look like when Klaus enters in Chapter 8?

10. What do the children realize after the storm has passed and they are on the lake?

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