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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 Josephine say that Ike, her dead husband, could do?
2. What does Captain Sham say happened to his leg?
3. What does Aunt Josephine talk about the whole way home?
4. What does the narrator say that he can tell the reader?
5. What does Count Olaf say his new business is?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the beginning of Chapter 4 what is the conversation that takes place around the dinner table?
2. What is said in Chapter 6 when Klaus says the note has been forged?
3. Describe the scene when the Baudelaire children and Aunt Josephine are walking home from the market in Chapter 3?
4. What does Mr.Poe tell the children in Chapter 1 as he puts them in the taxi cab?
5. How does Josephine describe what happened to Ike in Chapter 2?
6. Describe the bedroom that Josephine gives the children to stay in.
7. 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.
8. What disguise is Count Olaf wearing when the children meet him in the store in Chapter 3?
9. Describe Josephine's house as the children first see it in Chapter 1.
10. What do they find when they look at the shopping list of Aunt Josephine's next to the suicide note?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
There are many symbols used throughout the story. What symbols are readily identified and become significant as the story continues?
Essay Topic 2
Explain Josephine's personality.
1) Did she give any indication that she truly cared for the children? If so what?
2) Did she give the children over because of her fear or because she was selfish? explain.
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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