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

2. What do the leeches do when they become frustrated?
(a) Ram the boat
(b) Begin bitting small holes in the hull
(c) Leave
(d) Attacking the tiller

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

4. What does Klaus explain that he believes Aunt Josephine left in the note?
(a) A map
(b) A message
(c) Information about Captain Sham
(d) Her bank information

5. What does the narrator say Captain Sham resembled while they were at the restaurant?
(a) Earth worm
(b) Tiger
(c) Snake
(d) Chameleon

Short Answer Questions

1. What books does Violet say they need in order to find out what Josephine meant by the message left hidden in her note?

2. What does Violet do while they sail?

3. What is the creature on the docks doing as the Baudelaires sail away.

4. What does Violet say she thinks that she and her siblings should do?

5. Why does Captain Sham no one will believe Josephine?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the Baudelaires' journey to the Fickle Ferry in Chapter 9.

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

4. What does Captain Sham tell Mr. Poe about him and Josephine in chapter seven while they are eating at the restauarant?

5. What does Aunt Josephine say when Captain Sham say he is going to thrown her overboard?

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

7. Describe the scene in Chapter 11 when the Leeches arrive.

8. How does the creature stop the Baudelaire children after it wakes up?

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

10. What happens in Chapter 8 just after the children have found the atlas to tell them where Aunt Josephine is hiding?

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