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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 does Josephine say is her greatest joy in life?

3. What does Aunt Josephine talk about the whole way home?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. What do the children do after Aunt Josephine sends them to their room in Chapter 4?

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

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

Look at the characteristics of the three Baudelaire children.

1) What are the differences between them? What are the similarities?

2) Did the children forgive Josephine for her actions? What makes you think so?

3) Why did or didn't the children forgive her?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

This story has a warning in several places about the fact that it does not end well.

1) Does this influence your desire to read the book?

2) Do you continue to hope for a happy ending or something good to come of the events?

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