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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 Mr. Poe say even the most intelligent people in the world often need the help of?

2. What is Josephine afraid will happen if the doorknobs are touched?

3. What does Mr. Poe say he hopes isn't getting the best of the children?

4. Why does Mr. Poe tell the children that he can't go with them to Josephine's house?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do they find when they look at the shopping list of Aunt Josephine's next to the suicide note?

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss the creature that was Count Olaf's accomplice.

1) Why did this creature never speak?

2) Why aren't the accomplices given names?

3) What does it say about Count Olaf that he has such loyal accomplices for his foul endeavors?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe the love for Grammar that Josephine has.

1) Was there any indication early on in the story that her love for correcting grammar would be a down fall for Josephine?

2) Why is it significant that it is this love of correcting grammar that seems to get her killed?

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