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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 Violet offer to do to make Josephine feel better about the Telephone?

2. How do the Baudelaire children and Aunt Josephine get to town in Chapter 3?

3. What does Aunt Josephine say she will have to teach Sunny?

4. What is Violet thinking of inventing something for while they are standing on the dock?

5. How do the children get to Aunt Josephine's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the first meal that the Baudelaire children have in Chapter 2.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 plots or events are left unanswered in this story and left to the next books in the series?

2) How would it have changed the book if the events had come to a close at the end of this story?

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