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

2. What does Mr. Poe give the Baudelaire children?

3. What does Aunt Josephine say the radiator might do?

4. What does the narrator say that he can tell the reader?

5. What does Aunt Josephine have covering the stove and oven in the kitchen for safety?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe why Josephine refused to come get the children as it is described in Chapter 1.

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

3. What does Mr.Poe tell the children in Chapter 1 as he puts them in the taxi cab?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe Josephine's house as the children first see it in Chapter 1.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the family dynamics in the story.

1) In what way are Klaus, Violet and Sunny typical children and have a typical relationship?

2) In what way are they atypical?

Essay Topic 2

The children hope at the front of the book that they are going to live at a good home.

1) What is the purpose of the hope that the children have at this point in the story?

2)What has changed between this point and when the children are sitting at the dock leaving? Is there any indication that they are hoping once again at the end of the story? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Mr. Poe stand on the dock screaming at Count Olaf to stop rather than taking action of some type? What does this represent for the Baudelaire children?

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