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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klaus say that he hopes Violet is clever enough to do?

2. What does Klaus see on the way to answer the door that reminded him of Aunt Josephine and how she had been afraid of it?

3. What does Aunt Josephine say she hopes will happen soon?

4. What do the children decide must be true about the letter in Chapter 5?

5. What present does Klaus get from Aunt Josephine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the Baudelaire children keep things in perspective in Chapter 3.

2. Describe the gifts that Aunt Josephine gives the children in Chapter 2?

3. What does the narrator say about business cards in Chapter 4?

4. Describe the scene in Chapter 1 when Mr. Poe hands the children the bag of candies.

5. Describe how the town looks as the children drive through it for the first time on their way to Josephine's house.

6. What is said in Chapter 6 when Klaus says the note has been forged?

7. Describe what Klaus says in the beginning of Chapter 5 about the note that Aunt Josephine wrote.

8. In the beginning of Chapter 4 what is the conversation that takes place around the dinner table?

9. What does the narrator explain at the end of Chapter 5 in relation to the children crying?

10. Describe the children and Aunt Josephine's trip to town in Chapter 3.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Why does Mr. Poe and Josephine refuse to listen to the children about Captain Sham?

2) What does this convey to the reader about the author's point of view?

Essay Topic 2

Mr. Poe lists off several things that Count Olaf is charged with, including murder.

1) Why does Count Olaf interrupt Mr. Poe to add arson to the charges?

2) What is conveyed to the reader in this act?

Essay Topic 3

Count Olaf is very prideful. Discuss pride. In what other ways does pride show itself as a factor for events or characters in the story? Compare Olaf to another prideful character in a book that you have read.

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