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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 Captain Sham say Aunt Josephine is going to be joining?
(a) The wackos at the state institution
(b) The Leeches
(c) Mr. Poe
(d) Ike

2. What is happening when the Baudelaires leave the restaurant?
(a) There is a parade
(b) It has started raining
(c) The sky has grown dark
(d) The wind is gusting very hard

3. Where does Captain Sham say that he and Josephine had met while he is telling Mr. Poe the story?
(a) Cooking school
(b) While at a theater
(c) In the grocery store
(d) At the Lake

4. What do Klaus and Violet tell Mr. Poe that they have to go do?
(a) Save Aunt Josephine
(b) Sleep
(c) Go back to the cave
(d) Throw food in the water for the Leeches

5. What does Violet say she is trying to create?
(a) A Leech repellant
(b) A motor
(c) A homemade horn
(d) Fire

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Sham say Josephine jumping out the window would have been?

2. What sign do the children see as they get to the Fickle Ferry docks?

3. What does Count Olaf's accomplice step on that causes it to fall?

4. What does the narrator say the library room shook like?

5. What does Aunt Josephine ask the children not to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator explain when Violet says they are going to steal a sailboat?

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

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

5. Describe the invention that Violet makes in Chapter 11 and what it does.

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

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

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

9. Describe how the children sail the boat in Chapter 10.

10. What does Violet do under the table while they are eating at the restaurant?

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