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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 is the creature on the docks doing as the Baudelaires sail away.
(a) Still trying to get up
(b) Screaming
(c) Going into the shack
(d) Shaking its fist in the air

2. What happens to Sunny when she eats a peppermint?
(a) Her tongue swells up
(b) She breaks out into hives
(c) She breaks out in hives and her tongue swells up
(d) She starts having trouble breathing

3. What message has Klaus been able to get out of Aunt Josephine's letter?
(a) Captain Sham's Boat
(b) Curdled Cave
(c) Leeches
(d) Ike's home

4. What does the narrator say the sound of the Leeches was like?
(a) A low hum
(b) Whispering
(c) Screetching metal
(d) A vibration

5. What does Aunt Josephine NOT say that she will do in order to disappear?
(a) Get plastic surgery
(b) Wear colored contact lenses
(c) Change her name
(d) Dye her hair

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Mr. Poe say he doesn't drink?

3. What does Violet realize the message in Aunt Josephine's letter means?

4. What does Mr. Poe say that Captain Sham will have to do before the children will be put into his care?

5. What does Klaus continue to do while they sail across the lake?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Captain Sham say to the children when they get into his boat?

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

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

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