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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 the narrator say he once had cards made up to say?

2. What does Aunt Josephine talk about the whole way home?

3. What does Violet say she cannot wait to do?

4. What does Klaus wish Mr. Poe had brought him rather than peppermints?

5. What does Aunt Josephine say that her mother-in-law had in addition to only one eyebrow?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do they find when they look at the shopping list of Aunt Josephine's next to the suicide note?

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

3. How does Josephine describe what happened to Ike in Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. What does the letter say that the children find on the door from Aunt Josephine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author gives the reader many instances of foreshadowing in the story.

1) Give examples of foreshadowing that happen in the book and what it accomplishes.

2) Why does the author choose to reveal these pieces of information?

3) What other way could the author have given the information?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

1) What is the difference between the adults in the story and the children?

2) Does the difference between the adults and the children make it easier for children to relate to? Explain.

3) Why were the adults unable to see through Count Olaf's disguise?

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