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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 give the Baudelaire children?

2. What does Count Olaf say his new business is?

3. What do the children have for dinner their first night in Josephine's house?

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

5. What does Klaus tell Violet she could do with the note?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

6. What is said in Chapter 6 when Klaus says the note has been forged?

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

8. Describe the gifts that Aunt Josephine gives the children in Chapter 2?

9. 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.

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

The author gives the reader many instances of foreshadowing in the story.

1) Give examples of foreshadowing that happen in the book and what it accomplishes.

2) Why does the author choose to reveal these pieces of information?

3) What other way could the author have given the information?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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