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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 Violet suggest they use as a sample of Aunt Josephine's handwriting?

2. What color is the carpet and bed spreads in the Baudelaires' bedroom?

3. What does Mr. Poe NOT say about the note left by Josephine?

4. What is Klaus' greatest joy in life?

5. What does Klaus find attached to the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aunt Josephine correct on Captain Sham's business card?

2. Describe what happens in Chapter six when Klaus looks at Aunt Josephine's suicide note again just before they leave to go meet Captain Sham.

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

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

5. Describe the bedroom that Josephine gives the children to stay in.

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

7. Describe the first meal that the Baudelaire children have in Chapter 2.

8. What happens in Chapter 3 when the Baudelaire children are trying to explain to Aunt Josephine that Captain Sham is really Count Olaf?

9. What does the narrator explain in Chapter 1 about the children and the adventure that they are about to have?

10. What does Mr. Poe say about the children letting their imaginations run away with them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the motivators for Count Olaf.

1) Does his motivation seem to come more from a desire for money, power, or some other theme? Explain your answer and give examples.

2) How could these motivators be used as a good characteristic rather than a bad?

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

Discuss the creature that was Count Olaf's accomplice.

1) Why did this creature never speak?

2) Why aren't the accomplices given names?

3) What does it say about Count Olaf that he has such loyal accomplices for his foul endeavors?

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