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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 Josephine do that prompts Captain Sham to push her overboard?
(a) Stops him from hurting the children
(b) Sneezes on him
(c) Corrects his grammar
(d) Hugs him

2. Why does Violet say she and Sunny didn't take a baking soda bath?
(a) There was no hot water
(b) They decided they look good in hives
(c) The lights went out because of the hurricane
(d) Aunt Josephine didn't keep baking soda

3. Who is waiting at the dock when the children arrive with Captain Sham?
(a) Mr. Poe
(b) The police
(c) The creature
(d) The Fickle Ferry captain

4. Why does Captain Sham no one will believe Josephine?
(a) She is too scared to tell anyone
(b) She is a liar
(c) Everyone knows she is a nut
(d) She is dead

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the Baudelaire children goes in after the keys to the sailboat?

2. What happens when Klaus kicks at a leech that managed to get into the boat?

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

4. What does Sunny do while her siblings are trying to convince Mr. Poe that Aunt Josephine may still be alive?

5. What wakes up Count Olaf's accomplice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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