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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 Larry, the waiter, recommend since the occasion is sad?
(a) Happy Meal
(b) Slap Happy Biscuits
(c) Shake Your Sillies Out Milk Shakes
(d) Cheer-up cheeseburgers

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

3. What sign do the children see as they get to the Fickle Ferry docks?
(a) No Shirts, No Shoes, No service
(b) Closed
(c) Open
(d) No children without adult supervision

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

5. When does Mr. Poe say he doesn't drink?
(a) Weekday
(b) While he eats
(c) In front of children
(d) Banking hours

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Poe say he will have at the restaurant?

2. What does Captain Sham say he thought had happened to the children?

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

4. What does Aunt Josephine NOT tell Captain Sham?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do the children think about when Josephine is thrown overboard and they sail away from her.

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

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