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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 Aunt Josephine say that Klaus is being?

2. What do the children have for dinner with Aunt Josephine in the beginning of Chapter 3 when the children are trying to keep things in perspective?

3. What do the children have for dinner their first night in Josephine's house?

4. What does Josephine say is her greatest joy in life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in Chapter 4 where Violet answers the phone.

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

3. Describe the scene when the Baudelaire children and Aunt Josephine are walking home from the market in Chapter 3?

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

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 do the children find when they go into the library after finding the note in Chapter 4?

7. What do the children do after Aunt Josephine sends them to their room in Chapter 4?

8. Describe the library as it is seen for the first time in Chapter 2.

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

10. What disguise is Count Olaf wearing when the children meet him in the store 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

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 3

1) What lesson or moral did the children learn from Aunt Josephine? Explain your answer.

2) Was this lesson or moral given in a positive way or negative?

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