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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 he hopes isn't getting the best of the children?

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

3. What does the narrator say he had to escape with the cards he had made up?

4. What sound do the Baudelaire children hear while trying to think up a plan?

5. What does Klaus say about the letter Aunt Josephine wrote?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Josephine describe what happened to Ike in Chapter 2?

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

6. Describe the way that Aunt Josephine shows the children around the house?

7. What does the narrator say about business cards in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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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