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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 plant does the narrator use as an example to tell about how the Baudelaire children feel in Chapter 5?

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

3. What is the name of the restaurant with balloons in the window and neon lights?

4. What is Violet sent off in search of?

5. What does Josephine say that Ike, her dead husband, could do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Aunt Josephine correct on Captain Sham's business card?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What happens in Chapter 3 when the Baudelaire children are trying to explain to Aunt Josephine that Captain Sham is really Count Olaf?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) The children are supposed to be the good characters in the story but they often have actions that are not positive. They lie, such as when Violet is on the phone and says it is wrong number, and they steal such as when the children take the sail boat.

2) Does this change the way the reader views these main characters? Explain why or why not?

Does this influence your view on the level of appropriateness for younger audiences? Why?

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

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?

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