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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 present does Klaus get from Aunt Josephine?

2. What is Sunny's greatest joy in life?

3. What do the children decide must be true about the letter in Chapter 5?

4. What does Klaus tell Violet she is being while he is going over the note that Aunt Josephine left?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is said between the children in the beginning of Chapter 5 when they have an argument?

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

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

9. Describe how the Baudelaire children keep things in perspective in Chapter 3.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

There are a lot of dire situations in the story and it appears that Josephine dies after abandoning the children.

1) Is this book appropriate for younger audiences? Why or why not?

2) Did the death of Josephine influence your decision in any way?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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